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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Can't GNOME-vfs do this?
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