When you work with archives (both local and network) on ext and xfs file systems, take into account the following features:

  1. When you create an archive (see Creating Archive), the displayed free disk space is calculated based on the actual used space.

    For example, the disk size is 60 GB, and a 10 GB archive is created on it, but it is only 1 GB full.

    When you try to create a second archive on this disk, 59 GB of free space will be displayed, not 50 GB.


  2. Availability of the entire archive file size is not guaranteed in cases when other files run out of available space.

Due to the ext and xfs file systems features, it is possible to create archives whose total size exceeds the free disk space.


In such cases, it is necessary for the system administrator to control the free disk space.