[RndTbl] Mounting UFS

[Kevin McGregor]

...And then I found this:
http://stupidunixlinuxtricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-careful-of-solaris-tar-command.html

Frakking Solaris! Stone knives and bearskins. I suspected chroot might be
involved somehow.

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Kevin McGregor
<kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> Sean
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