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Seems that this is an inherent limitation of the gzip file format
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-03/msg00009.html

I guess this should be closed as "not a bug"? I don't know how to do
that however...

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Title:
  file-roller reports wrong content size for .gz file

Status in file-roller package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  .gz file size is 5.1 GB (5,063,869,339 bytes)
  file-roller reports content size 3.9GB and compression ratio 0.77 
  after extracting, the actual file size is 54.9 GB (54,940,270,592 bytes)

  version and system info:
  file-roller 3.10.2.1-0ubuntu4.1
  ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
  Memory 3.9 GiB
  Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 
  OS type 64-bit

  Steps to reproduce:
  go to: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/20151002/
  download file: wikidatawiki-20151002-pages-logging.xml.gz
  (file with description "Log events to all pages and users.")
  open file with archive manager, it shows:
  wikidatawiki-20151002-pages-logging.xml  3.9 GB
  extract the file and check actual size: 54.9 GB

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