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Subject: Re: CPIO
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From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 04:17:04 GMT
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publius@wam.umd.edu (Matt Beal) writes:
)I hope this isn't TOO simple or stupid a question, but I need an answer fast...
It is a good question. (I do not believe there are any "stupid"
questions:-)
)I was installing the source distribution, and ran out of space during
)the unpacking of the files. It occurs to me that I could probably
)handle it, but only if those 62 distribution files weren't there the
)entire time. What I'm getting at is this: how can I manually unpack
)those files? I managed to do one one time with: zcat <file> | cpio
)-<some options...don't remember> However, the rest failed. How can I
)unpack them? Tomorrow afternoon, I go on break and lose net access for
)10 days, so if anyone could mail me soon, I would VERY much appreciate
)it!
Do this (using your path to the files and assuming sh shell):
cd /
cat /usr/dist/bin01* | zcat | cpio -iadmu &
rm /usr/dist/bin01*
cat /usr/dist/src01* | zcat | cpio -iadmu &
Since that is now running in the background you can still execute
commands. About every minute you should do a "df" command to check your
partition space. With the following partition sizes on a friends
machine I had to fry the bin01 files and all but about the last few
src01* files:
:pa#20160:oa#204960:ba#4096:fa=512:ta=4.2BSD:\
:ph#168840:oh#245280:bh#4096:fh=512:th=4.2BSD:
This is about 10 megs root and 80 megs usr partitions.
If your "df" command shows 97% full then delete another couple of src01*
files.
--
Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering
ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota