On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:09:29AM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote:
> tar xfSj theres-a-sparse-file-in-this-archive.tar.bz2
>
> will just uncompress the archive (about .5GB), and tar will seek over the
> holes when creating the file.
mmm, yes, I had forgotten about the -S option. However, tar is still
exec'ing bunzip2 when you use the -j optoin, so 200GB is still going
to be sent across stdout. So it's no better than explicitly using
bunzip2, but no worse, either.
- Ted
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