On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 03:49:51PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Fedora 28
> > Xfce 4.12
> >
> > I have several large tar balls
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 todd users 6359558528 Jul 12 10:51
> > 2018-07-12_OurStuff.tar.gz2
>
> Is .gz2 a typo? I've only ever seen .bz2 or .gz. I doubt
> that's related, but it's a curiosity.
>
> > I have to deal with. They only extract (t or x) with the
> > command line "tar" command and crash both file-roller
> > and xarchive manager.
>
> Do they run out of memory? That would be my guess. I don't
> use GUI archive tools much at all, so I don't know if
> there's an option to have it simply extract the compressed
> tarball rather than try to decompress it first and then
> extract it from the .tar file.
gunzip -c tarfile.gz > tarfile
should do it.
but if the compressed tarball is that big, you'd be well advised to make
sure you've got ten or more gigs of free space before trying it because
both the compressed and uncmpressed files will stay there. then check
again before extracting from the uncompressed archive.
Or:
gunzip tarfile.gz
which uncompresses the tarfile and removes the compressed one. Probably
still needs enough space to hold both the compressed and uncompressed,
but only until it finishes decompressing, then deletes the compressed one.
then in either case, you should be able to just "tar xvf tarfile".
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