Hi. Actually, after running the test myself, ark does create a temporary file the size of the original material in /tmp. I did notice a 7+ gig file in /tmp , the same combined size of my home directory. After creating the huge /tmp file, the compressor starts working creating the compressed .tar.gz file i originally specified. That was the point when i killed the process. So you DO need 2x the_size_of_your_home_directory in free space available in /tmp and where you are creating the compressed file before you can safely start the archiving process. Cheers Szemir
On November 14, 2005 16:43, bogi wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
