[KLUG Members] gunzip uncompresses file to zero bytes

bill bill at billtron.com
Wed Mar 8 08:32:31 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 06:14, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:03 -0500, bill wrote:
> > I ran 
> > gunzip filename
> > to a file.  It worked away for a while and when it was done, left me
> > with a file of zero bytes.
> > What happened?
> 
> It didn't display any warning messages?  

No, just returned the command prompt.

> (and we are sure the
> filessystem isn't full?,  only root can use the last 10% or some such).

df -h reports plenty of space.
> 
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