Re: Potential GZIP Bug

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Hrin, Mike <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,

> I am trying to use gunzip (or gzip -d) to decompress a TAR file. The
> compressed file is 494 MB, and the directory to which I'm unzipping the file
> contains 22 GB of free space. I'm estimating the decompressed file will be
> 8-10 GB. 

Why estimate? Ask gzip for the actual uncompressed size:

        gzip -lvN inputfile

will print out something like this:

method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
defla 8361aa8d Sep 21 20:47     10124     48128  79.0% [...]

> However, when the decompressed file reaches approximately 2GB, the
> app fails with the error of "file size too large." Any ideas on what could
> be causing this? 

Obviously, your 'gzip' wasn't built with large file support.  You may
need an alpha release of gzip to have large file support.
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