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From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 March 2006 09:24
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
[snip...]
Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a
time, either --extract or --delete
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:42:22 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
what I think is needed
here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is
dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for
more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?
Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that,
Thank you All for your replies.
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From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2006 23:42
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
Michael Kintzios wrote:
As things currently are gentoo_usr.tgz is in /dev
On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, Michael Kintzios
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From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Kintzios wrote:
what I think is needed
here is untarring of the archive, while untarred
On Friday 24 March 2006 15:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Michael Kintzios wrote:
what I think is needed
here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is
dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for
more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?
I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole:
I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration
exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is
there a way of running tar so that:
1. Only part of /usr is untarred in a different partition
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole:
I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration
exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is
there a way of running tar so that:
1.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:46, Michael Kintzios wrote:
I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole:
I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration
exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is
there a way of running tar so that:
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From: Michael Crute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2006 17:03
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I need to go back to basics here to get out
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From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 March 2006 17:33
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
What about doing two separate tar files, one for /usr/portage and the
other for the rest of /usr? Then untar
On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where
that takes you.
Not very far. ;-) That's why I'm asking for some quick help. I also
need to add that I was seeking answers to the above questions in the
context of having
From:: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:32:55 -0500
In that case I would create /usr on one filesystem and /portage on
another partition then create /usr/portage and mount /portage
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote:
What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into
/dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz
archive, so that I get some space in /dev/hda2 to untar /usr/portage?
Really, what I think
On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:52, Bo Andresen wrote:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote:
What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into
/dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz
archive, so that I get some space in
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?':
Perhaps that link wasn't as useful to you as I thought when I
transmitted it. Here are a couple of other examples. I think it requires
GNU tar.
This compacts data recursively from
Michael Kintzios wrote:
As things currently are gentoo_usr.tgz is in /dev/hda2,
which is destined to house the /usr/portage directory. /dev/hda2
is a 4.0G partition with only 74M available.
How big is gentoo_usr.tgz? What's the rest on /dev/hda2?
/dev/hda3 will have the rest of the
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