Raimo Niskanen wrote: > I am writing a script that would be nice to be able to run > with only the root partition mounted, and it works fine > except that I find no way to read .gz compressed > files without e.g /usr/bin/zcat.
You can do it with something like this in single user mode: # mount /usr # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/compress # make LDSTATIC=-static # cp compress /root/compress_static # make clean # umount /usr # mkdir /usr/bin # mv /root/compress_static /usr/bin/zcat As soon as you mount the /usr partition the contents of /usr will be hidden. > So my questions are: is there a program in /sbin:/bin > that can decompress .gz compressed files? Or should > there be? Would it not be nice to be able to untar > e.g base43.tgz from single user mode without having > to mount /usr? basexx.tgz will unpack files in /usr which is not mounted. So all files will end up on the wrong partition. # Han
