Hi Paul, We saw that the free space on the disk partition is 139Mb and the uncompressed file size was 81Mb, we used below command to get these numbers.
Disk partition free space - > df -kh /partition_name Uncompressed file size - > gunzip -l tarname.tar.gz We are not able to understand even though we have 139Mb free space on the partition where the tarname.tar.gz is kept why the gunzip is reporting out of space error because it requires just 81Mb to write the tarname.tar file into the partition right? Thanks, Prabha -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 4:38 AM To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha) Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device> "Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > write(4, " 4 4 _ 2 S e n d e r ".., 24576) Err#28 ENOSPC This indicates that gzip ran out of disk space, and a write() system call failed. gzip does not check for disk space in advance; it merely checks as it writes. So I don't see any incorrect behavior here.
