Hi Somchai, > To achieve the goal of being able to unpack archives on top of a live > filesystem but not alter existing system directories,
Just to make sure I understand the goal correctly: while extracting the archive, tar should omit content of directories that already exist on the filesystem? E.g., if there is a directory /foo (with no files in it) and the archive contains files /foo/bar and /foo/baz, these files should not be extracted. Is that what you need? Regards, Sergey
