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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:43:27 +0200
From:      Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com>
To:        infofarmer@mail.ru
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mount a tar archive?
Message-ID:  <126eac48050330134340ab0e6e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <424B00C7.6000405@mail.ru>
References:  <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru> <424AF4B1.4060403@toldme.com> <424B00C7.6000405@mail.ru>

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:55 +0400, Andrew P. <infofarmer@mail.ru> wrote:
> 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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Can't GNOME-vfs do this?



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