CPIO Problem, copy to the root dir / instead of current dir

nekkro-kvlt · #1 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009

HI all, I got a CPIO archive that contains a unix filesystem that I try to extract, but it extract to the root dir / unstead of current dir, and happily it detects my file are newer otherwise it would have overwrited my system's file!

I tried all these commands

cpio -i --make-directories < archive
cpio -i --make-directories < ./archive
sudo cpio -i --make-directories < archive
sudo cpio -i --make-directories < ./archive

I'm in my home dir, on ubuntu and an ext4 partition

Any ideas ?

I done exactly the same thing with the cygwin cpio and it works fine :s

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009

Given that it's Ubuntu you have gnu cpio:

Code:

cd <newdir>
cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames < archive.cpio

nekkro-kvlt · #3 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009

Thanks, it worked

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