tar and out of disk space

Kim B. Heino Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com
Fri Dec 22 05:02:24 PST 2006


>> If I have a big.tar.gz file and not enough disk space to untar it, 
>> BusyBox's tar still returns error code 0. GNU Tar returns 2.
> Fixed in rev 17038, thanks.

Thanks, it seems to work fine:

[root at wrap tmp]$ tar xzvf zero.tar.gz ; echo $?
zero
tar: write error: No space left on device
1


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