On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:42:22 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> > what I think is needed
> > here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is
> > dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for
> > more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?
> 
> Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a 
> time, either --extract or --delete or ...

The simplest solution is probably to make several smaller tarballs
instead on one containing the whole of /usr.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Shell to DOS... Shell to DOS... DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...

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