08-09-2016
This is just a suggestion, but the problem you might have is that the backup crosses filesystem boundaries. If you restore without the filesystems mounted in the correct position relative to your current directory when you issue the command, then files will be put back in the directory in the parent filesystem.
If you can now boot but find the root filesystem is full, then you may need to unmount each filesystem and have a look in the directory each is mounted on.
Does this help?
Robin
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umount
UMOUNT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual UMOUNT(8)
NAME
umount -- unmount filesystems
SYNOPSIS
umount [-fv] special | node
umount -a | -A [-fv] [-h host] [-t type]
DESCRIPTION
The umount command calls the unmount(2) system call to remove a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) from the filesystem tree at
the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the list of filesystems provided by
getfsent(3).
The options are as follows:
-a All the filesystems described via getfsent(3) are unmounted.
-A All the currently mounted filesystems except the root are unmounted.
-f The filesystem is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses
are attempted. The root filesystem cannot be forcibly unmounted.
-h host
Only filesystems mounted from the specified host will be unmounted. This option implies the -A option and, unless otherwise speci-
fied with the -t option, will only unmount NFS filesystems.
-t type
Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on filesystems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a
comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types for which action
should not be taken. For example, the umount command:
umount -A -t nfs,hfs
umounts all currently-mounted filesystems of the type NFS and HFS. (The -a option only unmounts entries in the /etc/fstab list.)
-v Verbose, additional information is printed out as each filesystem is unmounted.
NOTES
Due to the complex and interwoven nature of Mac OS X, umount may fail often. It is recommended that diskutil(1) (as in, ``diskutil unmount
/mnt'') be used instead.
SEE ALSO
unmount(2), getfsent(3), mount(8), diskutil(1)
HISTORY
A umount command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 8, 1995 4th Berkeley Distribution