rootfs/ rootfs/init.rc rootfs/dev/... rootfs/etc/... rootfs/usr/...We'd like to extract the contained directory structure under the rootfs/ directly into the root directory of a mounted partition, for example, /mnt/sdb1. Otherwise, we will have to deal with the relocation of the device node files(rootfs/dev/...), which is a little bit cumbersome.
To skip the containing folder 'rootfs/', we can specify the --transform option during the extracting process,
tar xvfj ~/rootfs.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/sdb1/ --transform 's/rootfs//'and yield the following extracted directory structure.
/mnt/sdb1/ /mnt/sdb1/init.rc /mnt/sdb1/dev/... /mnt/sdb1/etc/... /mnt/sdb1/usr/...
