tar error unrecoverable?

[Colin Law]

On 24 January 2014 14:36, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:22:14 +0000
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23 January 2014 12:53, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to unpack a tar.bz2 file that is failing.
>> >
>> > Tried a couple GUI methods then at the command line I said
>> > tar -xjf 1t0zip.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > After several minutes it returned:
>> >
>> > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
>>
>> Are you able to simply copy the file to another location?  That would
>> rule out disk problems.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
>
> I tried moving it to another hard disc and it threw an IO error after 3
> GB.

Please try to be clear when you provide information.  It is not clear
whether the error occurred during the copy (in which case the problem
is nothing to do with tar) or when you then tried to unpack the copy.

Colin