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. Only part of /usr is untarred in a different partition (all of > /usr/*, except /usr/portage which I want to eventually untar it and keep > it in there). > 2. Those directories which are untarred are also removed from the .tgz > file so that there is enough space left behind to untar the /usr/portage > directory. > 3. Finally, /usr/portage is now untarred into the said partition and the > tgz file is deleted thereafter. > > Could you please help with the command/piping syntax?
Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where that takes you. -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
