Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:55 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mount a tar archive? Message-ID: <424B00C7.6000405@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <424AF4B1.4060403@toldme.com> References: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru> <424AF4B1.4060403@toldme.com>
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Danny Howard wrote: > 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 > The archive is actually part of my music collection on a headless fileserver. I would like to share it with samba. It's a pity that FreeBSD doesn't have linuxish arcfs or tarmount, but that sort of thing is not really needed very often. Thanks to all for your kind help! Andrew P.
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