On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:40:55PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote:
> 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.
FWIW, the Hurd has a capability to attach a "translator"
anywhere on a file system. By "translator", the
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:55 +0400, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,
> >
> >
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
Andrew P. wrote:
I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to
extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem?
Read-only would suffice.
That's actually a pretty neat idea, although I don't know that such a
capability is available. Hmm. Emacs has a special mode for accessing the
contents of a t
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 ab
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:28:02PM +0400, 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.
No, but of course you can access files within it using tar(1) without
having to extract them to disk
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.
Thanks,
Andrew P.
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