[OSM-talk] This week's planet

[Franc Carter]

Yep, the gzip format uses a 32bit integer to store the uncompressed
file size - which goes wrong for files greater than 4GB. Dave Hansen's
suggestion is the accepted work around.

On 10/4/07, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 21:59 +0100, David Earl wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have 113Gb of free disk so it shouldn't have run out; last time I
> > looked while it was in progress it was up to about 2.6Gb. Is there a
> > 4Gb
> > limit on gz? Or some other limit (I rather think it hadn't got up to
> > 4Gb)?
>
> Perhaps you need:
>
>         gunzip < planet.osm.gz > planet.osm
>
> -- Dave
>
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-- 
Franc
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