Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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? 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" ? -- "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin
