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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:45:53 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mount a tar archive?
Message-ID:  <20050330184553.GA48827@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru>
References:  <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru>

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:28:02PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to
> extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem?
> Read-only would suffice.

No, but of course you can access files within it using tar(1) without
having to extract them to disk (by extracting to stdout).

Kris

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