topic Segmentation fault while doing compress in Operating System - Linux

Segmentation fault while doing compress

sunil_34 — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:30:31 GMT

hey,

I am getting error segmentation fault while
executing compress . The file is
about 19 GB.

Any clues please reply.

Re: Segmentation fault while doing compress

Shaikh Imran — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:25:17 GMT

Hi,
Do you have enough space on the disk/filesystem where you are compressing the file ?
Normally compressing a file requires atleast 50%-100% of the free space on disk/filesystem
depending upon the ration of compression.

I think you are getting segmentation violation error because or this.

The better way is to use s utility :
check here:
http://www.adlenterprises.com/Utilities/File-Compression/compress-files-in-linux.php

Regards,

Re: Segmentation fault while doing compress

Kiyoshi Miyake — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:16:19 GMT

hi,

try -b option. like that:
$ compress -b 12 file.tar

see also man page of compress.

maybe execut well...

thanks.