I compressed everything

[imho]

I was trying to split up my vmware image into several files.
Supposedly the way to do this was

tar cvzpSf *

I wrote that in the images folder, and yes, it compressed.

Thing is, I can't uncompress it. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I didn't define an archive name.
The largest file was 8 GB, now it's 1 GB. When I untar * it looks like it's uncompressing but when it's finished, nothing has changed.

I feel like I divided by zero.

Halp

[bigtomrodney]

Try this, after cd'ing into the directory

for i in *;do tar -xvf "$i";done

Post back and let us know how that works out.

[imho]

bash-3.2$ for i in *;do tar -xvf "$i";done
tar: Applications: Cannot read: Is a directory
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmem
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmsd
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmss
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmx
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmxf
vmware-0.log
vmware-1.log
vmware-2.log
vmware.log
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: test: Cannot read: Is a directory
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
bash-3.2$

[Ziplock]

Hi there,

I think you are right about the name of the archive. Your tar command would have tarred all of the files in the directory into the one file, unfortunately, that file is the first one returned by the '*' wildcard. ie if you have a directory with files 'one', 'two' and 'three' in it and you run

tar cvzpSf *

you will probably tar everything into the file called 'one'

tar xvzf one

will get you the 'two' and 'three' files back, but 'one' is probably lost for good.

If you do an 'ls -alh' in the directory, it should show a very large file.

Good luck.