Comments on: What the heck do I do with a .cpio file?

By: Vlado Peshov

Vlado Peshov — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, because I thought that cpio were corrupted and was thinking downloading cpio files again.

Just a note: I didn’t have to put extra “c” parameter on Debian/Ubuntu/Centos4/Centos5

Regards

By: Gene Amtower

Gene Amtower — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:04:51 +0000

Very helpful, and I just LOVE the Story Pulse graph at the bottom of the page, too.

By: Rob larson

Rob larson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:19:43 +0000

O my lord! A website that does not give me 1000pages of garbage to read! Thank You so much….. =)

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:24:32 +0000

Thanks! You betcha I was installing oracle and I was like WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!? Zip Na RAR no. Tar ball no.. Gzip Nope… Thanks for the post!

Robert

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:23:59 +0000

Thanks! You betcha I was installing oracle and I was like WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!? Zip Na RAR no. Tar ball no.. Gzip Nope… Thanks for the post!

Robert

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:01:01 +0000

From my experience of moving installs around, some versions of tar don’t like working with very large tarballs. Solaris 8 was particularly bad – so I guess that’s why they don’t use it.

By: Manjula

Manjula — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:14:12 +0000

This is exactly what I needed .Thank you

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:08:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing Andrew. I haven’t run into this problem, but I haven’t had much contact with CentOs.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:32:52 +0000

I did it.
I use [cat cpio_filename.cpio | cpio -icd].

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:17:07 +0000

I did exactly what you said, but still can not deal with oracle cpio files.
My OS is CentOs4.4
Any suggestion?