Re: verifying that unzipped directories are the same? (tar problems)

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[rjnagle@web27 27test]$ ls

$ find . -iname '*'

To list filenames recursively from the current path. Save it to a file and
diff it with a list from the other machine. Which should tell you which
files might not have made it. At a minimum "wc -l" will give you a count
to compare.

$ du -h .

To see space useage. One note though about du using filesystem usage, not
file size usage. So they may not match perfectly. But it should tell
you if you're missing a couple 100MB's.

Assuming access to both files "cmp" could verify that the contents match.
Otherwise you might need to do some MD5 checksums to get your warm fuzzy.
Probably a dozen ways to roughly verify, and another dozen to exactly
verify.

On the surface based on those errors, it looks like your file didn't fully
transfer. But you've probably already guessed that.

HTH
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