Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:26:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzip and large files Message-ID: <20020828120913.F98594-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20020828020200.GG75117@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > Maybe your disk is full? :) Well I certainly don't get any disk full errors and df says I have a bit of space left also. I'm not confident I wont be out of disk space if the decompressions works but I don't think that is the problem I'm hitting now as even zcat stops at 300 or so MB. > Try running "gunzip -t", which will test the file without uncompressing it. It comes up as OK. > A 1gb text logfile should expand to between 5 and 10 gb. Well I will definitley run out of space when decompression succeeds but I'm only interested in part of the file so zgrep should hopefully save me. Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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