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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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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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