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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: tar
Keywords: tar filesystems
Message-ID: <3268@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:23:51 GMT
References: <1359@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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In article <1359@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
>A question about tar; Is it possible to un-tar to a file systems
>other than the the one that was tar-ed from?  Situation:
>I need to re-divvy may st4096, when I first set up xenix, I put
>about 67000 or so blocks on the root system and 70000 or so on
>the /u system, now I have acquired a fair amount of software that
>resides on the root (integra, word, the development system, sco professional,

It is a good idea to ALWAYS tar (or cpio for that matter) relative to the
current directory as in "tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 ." (you may want do "cd /u").

This way you can tar it into any directory you want.  In fact I will often
tar it into a uucp or tmp directory to make sure that the files are
completely readable BEFORE I wipe out the originals.

The Xenix versions of tar since Xenix III have supported a -A option to
untar relative to the current directory suppressing absolute path names,
but this is not supported in most vendors tar (nor do other vendors
support multi-volume tar as well as Xenix).  The format for this is
	tar -xvfA /dev/rmt0
which will suppress absolute path names.
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