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On 3/23/06, Michael Kintzios <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I think I need to go back to basics here to get out of a hole: |
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> I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration |
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> exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is |
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> there a way of running tar so that: |
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> 1. Only part of /usr is untarred in a different partition (all of |
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> /usr/*, except /usr/portage which I want to eventually untar it and keep |
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> it in there). |
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> 2. Those directories which are untarred are also removed from the .tgz |
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> file so that there is enough space left behind to untar the /usr/portage |
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> directory. |
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> 3. Finally, /usr/portage is now untarred into the said partition and the |
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> tgz file is deleted thereafter. |
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> Could you please help with the command/piping syntax? |
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Hmm... basics... I would start with `man tar` and see where that takes you. |
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-Mike |
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