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		edflsafoiewq on May 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryptio... You shouldn't use /tmp for that for that reason. aunpack for example extracts into a temp directory in the same directory as the final destination.

bravetraveler on May 11, 2024 [–]

I'm fine with either, I think you and Andrew at the top of the thread agree - PeaZip does as you suggest.

I'm just piling on :D Things that naively use temporary directories otherwise may run into an extra copy... because it's not necessarily on the same filesystem. It's rare, in fact, on modern Linux

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