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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.