I am trying to use some data, but would prefer to store it in a compressed manner and then access it via a named pipe that is being decompressed to. E.g.: However, this does not complete. I don't ...

I've got a 16 gig file and less than 5 gigs free. If I were to gzip it, would I run out of disk space in the process? I know that when used without any extra options, gzip overwrites the original file ...