du -ms <file or directory> to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim
<svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote:
> I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch.
> The .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such
> tar ball into a 10G partition would fail:
>
> Cannot write: No space left on device
>
> It fails even if I've used the --sparse switch when restoring. 10G is
> more than 6 times bigger than 1.5G. Does it really require that much of
> space, or I'm doing something wrong.
The GNU tar documentation says this about the --sparse option:
This option is meaningful only when creating or updating archives.
It has no effect on extraction.
HTH,
Sven
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