i cant untar this archive, i did it once before, but now i cant do it, and i'm typing the EXACT same commands. but half way through untarring there is an error.

Here is what it said, after the last 2 good files that were untarred.

hlds_l/dmc/events/door/doorhitbottom.sc
hlds_l/dms/events/axeswing.sc
hlds_l/libhlwon.so
tar: hlds_l/libhlwon.so: Wrote only 9728 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header
hlds_l/hltv.cfg
tar: hlds_l/hltv.cfg: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
hlds_l/ricochet/
tar: hlds_l/ricochet: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device


then it goes on to try and untar some files into the richoceht folder, a folder that doenst exist, since it coudlnt make it. Then after about like 50 files that are trying to get into the ricochet, it stops by saying:

tar: hlds_l/hlds: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Please tell me what is wrong, it worked before, but not now. And i have 160 GB of HD space on this dedicated box, so space is no prob

I had this problem before when I wasn't following directions properly, and so it was actually writing to RAM. Tell me, what precisely are you trying to do?

well i did:
tar -zxvf hlds_3111_full.tar.gz

And it started to extract everything. I just want to unzip this winrar archive thats in tar.gz format. There is alot of files and folder in there. hlds is the program name. and the folder it's extracting to is, /hlds

Also, what is this RAM thing ur talking about? I am wasting ram? How do i check my RAM usage?