When I tried to gunzip a huge file, I get a "invalid compressed data--format violated" error message. What does that mean?
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When using gunzip
on a huge file, for example, a vmcore file, sometimes the following error message may result:
# gunzip vmcore.gz
gunzip: vmcore.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
This usually indicates that the gzipped file is incomplete, and corrupted. It could be because:
1) the gzipped file was not compressed completely because...
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