Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3337 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody

In one directory I have approx. 11 GB uncompressed TIFF-files (~800 files). I 
wanted so save them in a compressed archive using konqueror -> compress -> 
compress as direcoryname.tar.gz. The job started and run for some minutes, 
then a message appeared with something like "error while compressing file xy" 
and the job aborted. A tar.gz files of 4 GB was written, containing many but 
not all files of the directory I wanted to archive.

While checking my disk space I noticed that my 5 GB /tmp partition was filled 
up to more than 90%. A copy of the 4 GB tar.gz file was in there, too.

Is the making of tar.gz-files limited to the size of the /tmp directory, are 
there any other limits or is there an error in my system or way of making an 
archive?

thanks for hints.

Daniel 
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