Greg Evans wrote:
> Just wondering why when I am trying to untar .tar files lately I am 
> getting errors like:
> 
> tar: only read xxxx bytes from archive filename.tar
> 
> This just started today and is particularly annoying as I am hoping to 
> install something but the archive will not untar completely.
> 
> doing a df reveals:
> 
> Filesystem     1K-blocks Used      Avail     Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a      645135    26687     553934    5%        /
> /dev/sd0g      2130684   1226079   691536    64%       /usr
> kernfs         1         1         0         100%      /kern
> procfs         4         4         0         100%      /proc
> 
> so I am confident that I have more than enough room available as the tar 
> files that I am working are only 269k and 162k and it appears that I have 
> more than enough room available...
> 
> ideas?

either the tar files are corrupted, or the scsi driver is being contrary.
can you get a table of contents on the archive?

later.

colin