I unzipped a 124 GB archive with only 25 GB free
Two real runs of in-place extraction with hatchzip and Devpit: the numbers, the shrinking archive, a false disk-full and a crash that resumed.
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Not enough space to unzip? 5 fixes that work on Windows
Why a big archive needs about twice its size to unpack, and five fixes in the order worth trying, including extracting in place when the disk is nearly full.
Why unzipping 100 GB needs 200 GB, and how to avoid it
Why 7-Zip, WinRAR, Explorer and tar need double the space, how extracting from the end of an archive avoids it, and how much free space you really need.