Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 01/09/2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com>
wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I have a 2 GB bz2 archive that unzips to over 10 GB (wikipedia dump).
>> Although I have over 50 GB free in /home, / has only about 8 GB free.
>> Thus, as tar uses /tmp, the / filesystem fills up and I cannot
>> continue. How can I specify a tmp directory for tar in my home
>> directory? Note that man tar makes no mention of a tmp option.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Dotan Cohen
>>
> Dumb question - does it help to create a /tmp directory in your home
> directory and run "export TMP=$home/tmp"? (I don't remember if bzip2
> and tar honor TMP.)
>
> Mikkel
Thanks, but that did not work either. The / filesystem did not fill
up, but I got this error:
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/Desktop$ tar xjf enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/Desktop$
Maybe the archive is bad?
Maybe it isn't even an archive?
What does "file enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2" return?
What happens if you try "bunzip2 enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2" ?
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