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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:32:08
Message-Id: 20060324092423.29bbfeb5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? by Benno Schulenberg
1 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:42:22 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
2
3 > > what I think is needed
4 > > here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is
5 > > dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for
6 > > more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?
7 >
8 > Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a
9 > time, either --extract or --delete or ...
10
11 The simplest solution is probably to make several smaller tarballs
12 instead on one containing the whole of /usr.
13
14
15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Shell to DOS... Shell to DOS... DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...

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RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar? Michael Kintzios <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk>