On Wednesday 24 October 2001 20:08, Laurent de Segur wrote: > I've got a compressed zip file with about 30000 files I want to > uncompress. I know that the uncompressed size will end up filling the > 1GB partition to about 90%. A suggestion: maybe your drive has run out of inodes? (To find out: attempt the decompress, then run "df -i" on the drive.) Gordon