From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:52:12 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 DBCAC16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E85143D41 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED865C92; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:52:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43437-09; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:52:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A495C1E; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:52:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <424AF53E.3090101@mac.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:51:42 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 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> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com 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 18:52:13 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to > extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? > Read-only would suffice. That's actually a pretty neat idea, although I don't know that such a capability is available. Hmm. Emacs has a special mode for accessing the contents of a tarball which might be helpful in other circumstances, but I suspect that an 80GB file is going to be too big for it to handle. In the meantime, you might be able to use "tar tf" to see the contents of this monster tarball, and you could then extract smaller pieces from it if need be, rather than having to deal with the entire thing all at once. -- -Chuck