On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:24, Michael Kintzios wrote: > What should I run to untar the rest of /usr (excluding /usr/portage) into > /dev/hda3 and at the same time delete it from within the gentoo_usr.tgz > archive, so that I get some space in /dev/hda2 to untar /usr/portage? > Really, what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while > untarred data is dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make > space for more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?
You don't have to scp the archieve to the machine before unpacking it. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup#Securely_backing_up_a_filesystem_on_a_remote_machine Also if you look at man tar you'll find tar --exclude PATTERN HtH -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
