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Originally Posted by n950 View Post
I have an error

Tar: short read
Well, I can't tell you exactly what the problem is, but since "short read" means that tar couldn't find the end of the file this usually means the archive is corrupted.

You could try to get some diagnostic messages directly from bzip2, to see if the file has been compressed correctly. E.g..:

Code:
bunzip2 -t alpha5.tar.bz2
or

Code:
bzip2 -dt alpha5.tar.bz2
 

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