[RndTbl] Mounting UFS

Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 16:47:30 CDT 2011


I'll just try this:
/usr/bin/cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp
/usr/bin/dd if=file.tar | /usr/bin/chroot /tmp ./tar xf -

And see what happens. It's a short-term situation, so this should be
sufficient.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:

> You can always download and compile GNU tar on Solaris if you need it.
> I had to do that once some years back because of some Solaris bug that
> prevented me from untaring.
>
> It only takes a few minutes and saves a lot of time in the long run
> trying to figure out the Solaris tar equivalents of the GNU tar
> commands you're used to.
>
> John
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