[ale] Q: How to get minimal bloat while unpacking tarball?

[Mills, John M.]

Christopher -

Good thought, but I'm installing from a either a USB stick or a
NFS-export from another box.

How about transient storage - does tar z... expand into some local
space? The partition that's filling isn't /tmp, though. (Actually I can
test that by un-tarring an _uncompressed_ tar file, and I will.)

Thanks.

- Mills
  

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Christopher Coleman
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:58 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Q: How to get minimal bloat while unpacking tarball?

If your tar ball is local, its using disk space as well. Any way to 
store it on a USB stick or CD?

Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
 ...

> Is there a way to incrementally unpack an archive so the old contents'
> space is recovered along the way, or does it sound like there's some
> other problem here?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
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