On 01/09/2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
