Tar extraction help

[bang_dba]

Hi,

I have a problem.

I have a tar file with absolute path. I want to extract this to a different path. How can i do this ?

I cannot create tar archive once again, as the data no more exists.

[sdousley]

Hi,

I have a problem.

I have a tar file with absolute path. I want to extract this to a different path. How can i do this ?

I cannot create tar archive once again, as the data no more exists.

Extracting the tarball creates the file structure within the tarball in the cirrent directory, say there's 3 directories that got tarred up:

/home/user1
/home/user2
/etc

Then when you extract this tarball in /home/user3/extracted, it will create the folders:
/home/user3/extracted/home/user1
/home/user3/extracted/home/user2
/home/user3/extracted/etc

with the data in, it wont extract it all to /home/user1, /home/user2, /etc .