From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:49:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6D516A4D9 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shiva.nextrials.com (shiva.nextrials.com [64.81.74.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A0143D49 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:49:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (mito.sr.nextrials.com [192.168.1.102]) by shiva.nextrials.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3F73C2832; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:49:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <424AF4B1.4060403@toldme.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:49:21 -0800 From: Danny Howard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050328) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: infofarmer@mail.ru References: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Mount a tar archive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:49:23 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to > extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? > Read-only would suffice. Andrew, Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want. You ought to be able to: tar -t foo.tar > list.txt edit list.txt cat list.txt | xargs tar -x foo.tar -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/