Thank you All for your replies. > -----Original Message----- > 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/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?
gentoo_usr.tgz is 3.9G+ and there's nothing else left in /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? There's no other roomier partition which will contain gentoo_usr.tgz as a single file. > 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? I'll have a look at doing something like that, although I will not be able to untar gentoo_usr.tgz into another partition (at 6.4G untarred there's just not enough space). > > 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 ... Yes, that's why I was hoping that some clever bash-ery may be able to pipe the lot together. As I have no access to another machine or network until I get back home, the helpful link provided may have to wait. Of course once I get back home I can only tar the directories I need, one at a time. Thanks again for your replies. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
