tar error unrecoverable?

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:22:14 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2014 12:53, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> > I'm trying to unpack a tar.bz2 file that is failing.
> >
> > Tried a couple GUI methods then at the command line I said
> > tar -xjf 1t0zip.tar.bz2
> >
> > After several minutes it returned:
> >
> > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> 
> Are you able to simply copy the file to another location?  That would
> rule out disk problems.
> 
> Colin
> 


I tried moving it to another hard disc and it threw an IO error after 3
GB.
Yeah, it's a huge file, I mean huge, no doubt my first mistake.