Problem with UNZIP

sammano · 03-27-2007, 02:30 PM

Hi,
I am having a DAT file of zip 3.8 GB. i have zipped it and loaded from windows to Linux through file transfer utility. When i tried to unzip the file in linux i am getting this error.

.dat: write error (disk full?). Continue? (y/n/^C)
I am having 19 GB free space. Pls help me

Thanks,
Sam

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2007, 03:07 PM

how is this a "success story"?

just becuase people post success stories here, doesn't mean this is where the clever people hang out...

XavierP · 03-27-2007, 03:28 PM

Moved to Linux-General

trickykid · 03-27-2007, 04:15 PM

Does it give you this error right away or after its been running for a while? You do realize that zip files are compressed and you could be potentially unzipping a file that takes up more space than you have available.

rickh · 03-27-2007, 04:28 PM

I may be that the /tmp directory where you are trying to unpack it doesn't have enough space.

TheLateJC · 04-10-2007, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sammano

Hi,
I am having a DAT file of zip 3.8 GB. i have zipped it and loaded from windows to Linux through file transfer utility. When i tried to unzip the file in linux i am getting this error.

.dat: write error (disk full?). Continue? (y/n/^C)
I am having 19 GB free space. Pls help me

I've just discovered that RHEL3's version of unzip does not support large files, maybe your problem is the same. Try downloading info-zip's unzip biaries for linux and using that instead.