Re: Need help: tar and huge files
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:52, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Over the past weekend I had a meltdown on my server's only HD. The best
> I could do was nab some tars from the filesystems using LNX-BBC, move
> them over the network to a Windows box, reformat and reinstall.
Shame, shame, shame!!! Why didn't you back up your data???
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> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get that file out from the tar so I
> may access the files that reside after it in the tar? There's about
> 2,000 more files in there I'd really like to pull out. 1/2 my home dir,
Could you do 1,999 single file extractions, thus leaving the bad file
in the tarball? bash should make doing that /relatively/ easy...
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