large tar.gz job crashes - /tmp too small?
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 -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-04-01 at 11:53 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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.
You may be using a filesystem with a 4GB per file limit. You didn't say which one you use.
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?
Try the command line... - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFELpCttTMYHG2NR9URApk0AJ9YuGBECIvaLeR3+obC4AdYlBjmVQCgiG/f EQjrTAfPaElFVAH8N52Z+Tk= =BYFD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 16:39 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The Saturday 2006-04-01 at 11:53 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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.
You may be using a filesystem with a 4GB per file limit. You didn't say which one you use.
reiserfs 3.6 (Suse 10.0) is this limited?
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?
Try the command line...
hm, have to go to scool first ;-)
Cheers, Carlos Robinson
-- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com
Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 18:26 schrieb Per Jessen:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Try the command line...
hm, have to go to school first ;-)
open terminal, then
tar czf <name-of-tar-file>.tar.gz <directory-to-tar>
/Per Jessen, Zürich
danggschön! (means: thanks) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com
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