Not enough disk space to unzip file

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oldguy
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Not enough disk space to unzip file

#1 Post by oldguy »

I have been trying to unzip a file in Puppy and keep running out of space before all the files are unzipped (it is an 70MB tar.gz that expands to 200MB). The file is in the my-documents folder and unzips to /root. I have already moved or deleted all non-essential files, and still cannot get all of the files. I am getting around 140 to 160 MB of the files copied. I have a two part question;

1. Is there a way to split the tar.gz so I can manage the files. I can always copy
them into a folder in Windows using MUT 0.0.7. Making room for the
remainder of the files.

2. Can the hard drive vfat be accessed using the console (rxvt). I tried unzipping
the file there using the path /mnt/home/my documents/my received
files/xxxx.tar.gz and got an error message.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

kirk
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#2 Post by kirk »

If your /mnt/home partition is not NTFS, then you should be able to extract your file there. Well, if you have space on that partition.

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#3 Post by norsiwel »

On the utilities menu at the very bottom is a utility to resize your personal storage file, pup001, you can easily enlarge it to 768 mb if you have the room on your hard drive, then you shouldn't have any trouble, and if you are using a vfat file system on your hard drive, you can save to and use files by navigating to /mnt/home and doing your file work there.
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#4 Post by rarsa »

Here is the scoop.

If you uncompress the file to the VFAT you will loose many file properties such as owner, the execution bit, etc. You will also loose any symbolic links (symlinks) contained in the file because symlinks make no sense to VFAT.

Here are some options for you, (there may be more but this two should be enough:

A) You cound expand the size of your pup001 file. Puppy comes with a utility to do this. Look at the bottom of the Utilities menu.

B) Copy your pup001 file to another file (e.g. pupdata) and then empty that file so you can use it for whatever you want. (http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=32274#32274)

C) Create another Ext2 file. http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=32709#32709

D) Use MU's Virtual Hard drive manager http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... ht=virtual

As you can see the final purpose is to create a large ext2 (or 3) file system for you to expand your files.
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oldguy
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#5 Post by oldguy »

Thanks for the detailed reply, rarsa. I have been away, so I finally got around to expanding the space required. Now for some reason I cannot get the command to execute. I am typing in the following in the console, rxvt;

/root/my-documents/xxx-xxx-9.1-2.tar.gz -zxf

and get

cannot execute binary file

I used Xarchive (the hard way, and then the easy way using pupzip) and verified the permissions and that all the files are in the tar.gz. I was able to unzip this file before I left, so I am not sure what I am doing differently. I was also looking for an unzip utility in Puppy 1.08 and everything seemed to point back to Xarchive to create comprressed files, not to extract them. Any help would be appreciated.

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#6 Post by marksouth2000 »

norsiwel wrote:On the utilities menu at the very bottom is a utility to resize your personal storage file, pup001, you can easily enlarge it to 768 mb if you have the room on your hard drive, then you shouldn't have any trouble, and if you are using a vfat file system on your hard drive, you can save to and use files by navigating to /mnt/home and doing your file work there.
Note that in Puppy 109CE it's at the bottom of the "File System" menu. Which makes sense if you think about it. 8)

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