RE: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>

[Biradar, Prabhulingamma \(Prabha\)]

Hi Paul Eggert,

Currently on our server we have installed solaris 10.
With ls -l command I found that the size of uncopressed file is 81Mb, so
the gunzip -l is showing correct value.
:/>ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 omcadm   omcadm   85349888 Aug 25 12:51
omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar

So looks like some other factor is stopping the gunzip to fail with no
space error.
With 87Mb free gunzip was working fine in some partition but with 139Mb
free gunzip was failing...:(

I don't know why...:( 

please help me out...

Thanks,
Prabha
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:22 AM
To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>

"Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)" <address@hidden>
writes:

> compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>
> 25826218            85349888    69.7% omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar

Alas, the "uncompressed" number is printed modulo 32.  Possibly the
correct value is 4 GiB larger than what's listed, which would explain
your problem.  At any rate, 'strace' should tell you what's happening.