Re: question re tar
On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 10:10:05 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> ...
> But you could create a small ext filesystem in a file, mount it and make
> experiments with it.
oh, that's an excellent suggestion. thanks. will do that in the coming days.
> > the "machine" is a VM, pre-installed by Google, and it has more mounts
> > than dog has fleas :-) (but '/' says is on btrfs)
> I know that flea effect from ZFS on Solaris. It makes the mount command
> nearly unusable for information gathering.
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On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 12:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Since none of us can reproduce your archive, only you are in a position
> to test that. Doing it in a subdirectory of /tmp or /var/tmp ought to
> be harmless enough. You can just nuke that subdirectory when you're
> done with it.
should be safe enough, agree. (and could then copy from tmpfs type fs
to the partition with /home. decided to go with Tomas' idea. thanks)
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