Hi,

Suppose you have 2.5G space left then how to find the space, the unzipping and further untarring will take without unzipping it ?
[amit@localhost]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 20G 17G 2.5G 88% /
/dev/sda2 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot
none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
[amit@localhost]$ du -sh ./expect-5.43-src-11.11.tar.gz
640K ./expect-5.43-src-11.11.tar.gz
[amit@localhost]$ gunzip expect-5.43-src-11.11.tar.gz
[amit@localhost]$ du -sh ./expect-5.43-src-11.11.tar
2.4M ./expect-5.43-src-11.11.tar
[amit@localhost]$ du -sh ./expect-5.43/
2.7M ./expect-5.43/

Thanks,
~amit