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Bug 542424 - Tar.bz2 archives create uncompressed archive files
Tar.bz2 archives create uncompressed archive files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-10 19:45 UTC by Maciej Katafiasz
Modified: 2008-08-05 09:13 UTC
See Also:
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Description Maciej Katafiasz 2008-07-10 19:45:50 UTC 
When creating a tar.bz2 archive, f-r first makes a .tar, then bzip2s it. That causes unnecessarily huge disk usage. That means I can't archive a 6G directory with 7G free space, because the .tar will eat up all the space left.

Expected result:
Pipe everything to bzip2 directly, without creating temp files, so that the above scenario can run to end without exhausting disk space.
Comment 1 Paolo Bacchilega 2008-08-05 09:13:26 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.