Strange behaviour of tar on a CF.

[Marcin Jessa <lists%yazzy.org@localhost>]

Hi guys.

I have a small system which boots from CF, mounts rootfs in memory, formats the 
CF and then it is suppose to decompress a file to the CF with tar zxf file.tgz 
but I get following errors:

tar: could not exec: No such file or directory
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.

The file is there, it has correct size. It can be decompressed just fine on my 
HD.
I even run /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd and chown -R root:wheel /mnt/ 
(my mount point) to ensure the file has correct owner.
There is avaliable space on the disk, it does not have any errors (checked with 
fsck after newfs).

I am basically stucked.
Any idea what can be causing this strange behaviour of tar ?


Cheers,
Marcin Jessa