Ubuntu – safely remove a tar archive after extracting it
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Or am I supposed to save them for some reason?
Best Answer
Yes: once extracted you can safely remove it as long as it is easy to re-obtain a copy should you need it again (via download, external hard disk, etc.)
Put another way: if that tar or tar.gz is the ONLY copy in the world, you probably don't want to delete it ;)
An EOF (end of file) error means that the application was expecting there to be more data available, but it ran out of data and reached the end of the file. In the case of trying to decompress a tarball, most likely the tarball is corrupt. If you downloaded it from the internet, you could try downloading it again.
Best Answer
Yes: once extracted you can safely remove it as long as it is easy to re-obtain a copy should you need it again (via download, external hard disk, etc.)
Put another way: if that
tarortar.gzis the ONLY copy in the world, you probably don't want to delete it ;)