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 filesystem > (and the remaining /usr directory). What's on /dev/hda3 now? How big is it? What's on /dev/hda1? Can't you move the gentoo_usr.tgz to another roomier partition? If I get it right, /dev/hda3 is destined to become your /, and /dev/hda2 your /usr/portage. Have you already upacked the rest of / on /dev/hda3? How about retarring it and untarring it after gentoo_usr.tgz? > 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, it can only do one command at a time, either --extract or --delete or ... Benno -- [email protected] mailing list
