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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