Mount a tar archive?

[Danny Howard]

Andrew P. wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to
> extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem?
> Read-only would suffice.

Andrew,

Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the 
archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want.

You ought to be able to:
tar -t foo.tar > list.txt
edit list.txt
cat list.txt | xargs tar -x foo.tar

-danny

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