What to say about you great inteligent people, thank you so much for your fast help-responses...Many many people replied , most of the replies were refering using ln which works in many cases, not on mine.. i will post the solution that worked for me and I think the most complete. Respect to you my friends. Thank you again for your interest. That Used to be my problem : -Hello again Guru's.. -I have a tar issue, please help me if you can. This is the issue : -I have a big tar file that has been tared with the -c (not -C) option, --with the following path e.g. /home/user1 . The problem is the /home -filesystem is full I need to extract it under e.g /usr/u01 (different fs) i mean change the relative path that has been tared, without extrating -on -another system and them movin. > There are a couple of alternatives: > > a. Method 1 (user) > 1. /usr/bin/pax -r -s ',^/,,' -f file.tar b. Method 2 > (root) > 1. /usr/bin/cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp > 2. /usr/bin/dd if=file.tar | /usr/bin/chroot /tmp > ./tar xf - > > or.... > > mkdir /var/tmp/new/ > cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /var/tmp/new > cp file.tar /var/tmp/new > chroot /var/tmp/new ./tar new.tar Frank Huang Other many other people replied the same as frank i just posted his which includes the rest plus the ln, so pex , chroot, ln is the way to do it. for the last time Thank you people. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 19 15:53:47 2005
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