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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Using Tar
Message-ID: <1990Sep01.160131.16764@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Sep 90 16:01:31 GMT
References: <1990Aug30.202639.26547@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Aug30.202639.26547@agate.berkeley.edu> swade@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Wade Shen) writes:
>I have a tar file that is too big to be extracted onto my HD... How would i go about untaring it
>I have enough space for the untared files but not for the tar and the extracted files... I have a tape drive

If you are close to having enough space, you might make it if you compress the
tar file, then extract with "zcat file | tar xf -" .  Otherwise you will
have to use dd to copy the tar file image to tape, then read it back in
with a normal tar command. To be safe, you might want to do a verify pass
on the tape using tar t before you delete the disk copy.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us