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: > > 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.
What about doing two separate tar files, one for /usr/portage and the other for the rest of /usr? Then untar each tar file into the appropriate partition. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
