[RndTbl] Mounting UFS

[Kevin McGregor]

Huh. I tried -C, and it didn't seem to work! Or at least, not the way I
expected?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Sean Cody <sean at tinfoilhat.ca> wrote:

> Try tar xvf file.tar -C /tmp/someotherroot/
>
> On 2011-08-19, at 7:19 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
>
> > I have a TAR file (well, many) created with Solaris 10. I can restore it
> under same, but it seems the Solaris version of tar doesn't give you the
> option of stripping the leading "/" when restoring, which is a slight
> problem for my situation.
> >
> > Did I miss something, and it can restore to a relative path after all?
> > Does anyone have any other suggestions, such as other utilities to use or
> even OSs with a more flexible tar that can mount a UFS slice?
> >
> > Kevin
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