can't zip large files 2gb >

[Igor B. Bykhalo]

Hello David,

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 8:46:56 AM, you wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:53:55PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:22:28PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
>> > Another piece of info - I just complied rzip and it seems I 
>> > have the same problem there! There must be something in common,
>> > that these programs are using...
>> 
>> Is your filesystem full? :)
>
> Not at all;

Just guessing:

> Filesystem                1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a                  503966   110728    352922    24%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f                  257998    29528    207832    12%    /tmp
                               ^^^^^^
               Your /tmp is about 250 MB

> /dev/ad0s1g                75407576 51862570  17512400    75%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e                  503966   260560    203090    56%    /var
                               ^^^^^^
Your /var (with /var/tmp) is about 500MB

Can't it be that zip just don't have enough space for temporary storage?


> procfs                            4        4         0   100%    /proc
> linprocfs                         4        4         0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> 70.52.121.240:/usr/backup  75331512 15213578  54091414    22%    /usr/optex
> /dev/ad1s1e               307684276 73248808 209820726    26%    /tusr
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 Igor B. Bykhalo                            mailto:goshik at binep.ac.ru