01-27-2003
Maybe I wasn't being clear but what I am trying to do is untar from one file system to another
E.G.
machine 1 has two file systems. file system A has 2 gigs of space. file system B also has 2 gigs of space.
on machine 2 The directory I want to tar is called pedro and I will use the following command to tar it after changing into the local directory
tar -xvf pedro.tar pedro.
The size of pedro.tar is 1.6 gigs
I ftp pedro.tar to file system A on machine 1. The file is too big to untar it as the combination of the pedro.tar and the untarred directories will be greater than 2 gigs.
The solution I was trying to employ is to let pedro.tar exist on file system A but use a tar command which will put the resultant untarred directories into file system B
If I do
tar -xvf pedro.tar .
it will untar the file to the current directory
using that logic I was trying to untar it to file system b using relative paths
i.e. tar -xvf pedro.tar ./../file system B
but the command doesn't work despite not producing an error.
If anyone knows a way to do this please let me know as I have a number of files in varios file systems where the file systems are too small to contain both the tarred and untarred version of the file.
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