> -Original Message-
> 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
> >
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 . . .
On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, "Michael Kintzios"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?':
> -Original Message-
> From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Michael Kintzios wrote:
> > > what I think i
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 c
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
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 file
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.
>
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 sp
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 th
> 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
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 h
> -Original Message-
> 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
> -Original Message-
> 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
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 th
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
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
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