topic Re: tar: directory read error in Operating System - HP-UX

tar: directory read error

Robin C. Querol — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:23:13 GMT

I used tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m .

Here's a snapshot of the error:

tar: ./ARCHIVE/TKTMRG2: directory read error

What does this error mean?

Re: tar: directory read error

T G Manikandan — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:29:25 GMT

check the permission of the dir and files beneath that.

directory read error is the error status 5 which means there there was a I/O error.

Re: tar: directory read error

S.K. Chan — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:30:04 GMT

It means you don't have permission to access the directory ./ARCHIVE/TKTMRG2 and hence tar complain about it. For example ..( a quick test that I ran .. )
$ cd /users/skchan/data
$ mkdir test
$ chmod 000 test
$ tar cvf dir.tar *
....
....
tar: test: directry read error.

Re: tar: directory read error

Radhakrishnan Venkatara — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:42:21 GMT

hi,

check for NFS mounted directory.

radhakrishnan

Re: tar: directory read error

Robin C. Querol — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:05:08 GMT

Thanks for the replies. But I have checked the directory permission and its set to 777. The weird part is that prior to the error tar has backuped some files within it. Also the owner of the directory and files is the one executing tar and lastly the user is defined in the sudo file.

Re: tar: directory read error

Michael Tully — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:10:36 GMT

How big are the file(s) in question? 'tar' has a limitation of 2Gb on a file.

Re: tar: directory read error

Robin C. Querol — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:15:07 GMT

7MB/file

Re: tar: directory read error

Michael Tully — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:30:01 GMT

COuld you try and backup the same directory/directories with something other than tar, and to either a new tape or to disk. I want to see if the error occurs using a slightly different method.

Regards
Michael

Re: tar: directory read error

Robin C. Querol — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:45:27 GMT

Hi the tar backup of the file system which is around 10GB in size is a daily routine and we just experienced this error today. We tried to run the backup again and see if we still encounter the error. Thanks

Re: tar: directory read error

T G Manikandan — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:08:05 GMT

I would suspect the GID/UID of the file.

Try the by performing a tar as the owner of the file.

Thanks