The place I work for does some logs in a program that makes Gzip files but it seems some of the archives got corrupted. Our linux guy is out and we don't have anyone who knows linux well enough or a ...

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 ...