trunc
Unpack archives bigger than your free space
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trunc extracts archives and deletes them as it goes, so you only need room for the files, not the files plus the archive. A 3.3 GB ZIP that needs 8.4 GB of disk with 7-Zip takes 5.3 GB with trunc. It works on ZIP, tar (.gz,bz2,xz,zst), ISO and split archives, and is safe to interrupt: trunc resume picks up after a crash or a full disk. It also packs folders into its owntrnc format, built to be extracted this way from the start. Free and open source, Windows and Linux.
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PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Storage
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Yes A CLI that streams archive extraction and deletes entries as it goes is a bounded systems task. Parsing ZIP, tar, and ISO formats is well documented, and an AI assistant can produce it, though it needs careful testing for safe interruption.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 229 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
- hatchzip · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Synczipr · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- LinkUnzip · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Zipgeist · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DiskCompanion · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- TERAZIP ALL PACKING BYTES · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Anchor · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ZipGo - Unarchive RAR 7Z ZIP · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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More details
- External ID
- 1280060
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- trunc
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Open Source, Storage, Developer Tools, GitHub
- AI summary
- archive extraction utility for storage-constrained drives
- Manually corrected
- No