Istvan Gabor wrote:
Does the freedb tar.bz2 file really expand from 450Mb to 10Gb ?
I don't know what the size is of the completely uncompressed tree. I used the 370 MB rar archive that resulted in a 3.2 GB tar archive after extraction. As I know tar doesn't compress so I suppose that the final also should be around 3.2 GB. Am I right or wrong?
You're right - tar doesn't compress. I've just uncompressed the freedb tar.bz2 archive and it comes to about 3Gb too. But it only took 16 mins - I think something went wrong in your decompression. Somewhow. I would reformat that partition and start over. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.