Well Michael, What was the file extension you gave you compressed file, if you do not specify the extension, i see it will default to zip, and i am not sure if zip will handle large archive files. you should use .tar.gz or a .tar.bz2. Now the second reason could well be, defaulting to zip, and the zip compressor not being available on your system. try the .tar.gz , that is more likely to be available on a Debian. The third potential problem may well be that you dont have sufficient free disk space where you are trying to create your archive file. Also check the size of /tmp . tmp needs to be large enough to hold allmost the entire compressed archive i think, but i could be wrong here. Cheers Szemir
On November 13, 2005 19:36, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello Mike, > > I tried selecting compress on the home directory called michael and > everything seemed to be working until I got the error message, "Unable > to compress" after a few seconds. > > Regards, > > Michael Walters > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >________ > > Mike Fitton wrote: > >Hi Michael, > > > >I usually just find the main directory I want to compress including all > > its sub-directories and files, then right click and select "compress", > > then "compress as". There you can pick whatever format you wish. > > > >It sounds like you are using the command line to do yours with and I have > > not used it that way before. I use File manager to do mine and have the > > option to compress when right clicking (Not sure if that option is > > present on your system though) > > > >btw- I am no expert, but this works for me. Good luck! > > > >Cheers > >~mike > > > >On Saturday 12 November 2005 8:33 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > >>I tried changing directory to my home directory and did an ark michael > >>and got a few error messages. Do you want me to do it again and give you > >>all the error messages? If so, then I will do so some time Monday. > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
