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On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:46, Michael Kintzios 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 |
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> keep 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 |
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> /usr/portage directory. |
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> 3. Finally, /usr/portage is now untarred into the said partition and |
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> the tgz file is deleted thereafter. |
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What about doing two separate tar files, one for /usr/portage and the |
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other for the rest of /usr? Then untar each tar file into the |
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appropriate partition. |
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