[SATLUG] How to access cpio archive??

[Luis Garza]

To see the files listed in the cpio archive:

cpio -ictv < /boot/message

To restore it:
cd /restoredirectory
cpio -icvdum < /boot/message



Emon wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> The command file shows me this
>
> *******************
> emon at magicbox:~> file /boot/message
> /boot/message: cpio archive
> emon at magicbox:~>
> *******************
>
> So how do I access a cpio archive?? the normal archival tool "ark" in
> KDE cannot seem to unpack it!
>
> I am running Suse10.2
>
> Emon
>
>
>
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