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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: CPIO Message-ID: <C3v2KH.E2M@ns1.nodak.edu> From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 04:17:04 GMT Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) References: <1993Mar11.235458.29775@wam.umd.edu> Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Lines: 39 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