Hi We have found that gzip --list does not list correct uncompressed size for large files. Our test file was approximately 8GB in size before gzipping and gzip --list on the gzipped file does not show the correct size
gzip --list newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 276896029 4209720692 93.4% newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names gunzip newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names.gz du -shm newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names 8119 newshorter.fsdb.vcd.names gzip -V gzip 1.4 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Jean-loup Gailly. gcc -v Reading specs from /tool/pandora64/.package/gcc-4.1.1/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.1.1/specs Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/tool/pandora64/.package/gcc-4.1.1 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.1 [r...@orkney tmp]# uname -a Linux orkney 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:15 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Donald Zoch -- Donald Zoch Global Engineering Support Core Services (Tools and Services) donald.z...@amd.com (512) 602-7945 (x57945)