>>> gzcat: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
>> Your partition is actually below the 1TB mark, [...]
> revision 1.7
> date: 2004/05/02 02:54:37;  author: tjr;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -10
> Apply patch from gzip web page to correctly decompress files larger than
> 4GB on architectures with 64-bit long integers.

Oh dear.  Okay, time to try the tests over again with bzip2 - and maybe
try the tests on a filesystem that's only a few hundred gigs, too, just
to be sure.  I'll report any progress I make.

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