regarding /var Filesystem

[Kavita Poonia]

Hello there,

what type of file /var/opt/wbem/repository.tar
is ?????
Can we zip this file

Thanks a lot

[Bill Costigan]

tar is like zip but uses a different archive and compression. You can zip it is you want but it might get even bigger. Compressing a compressed file often does that.

If you want to unarchive/uncompress it use the command

tar -xf repository.tar

If you just want to see what is in it use:

tar -tvf repository.tar

[Sajjad Sahir]

dear kavitha

if u want to know the filesytem type

u type

fstyp /dev/vg00/lvol1
hfs
now it is hfs file system because it is stand
similar way u can find all type of file system type in all logical volume
the above one is a tar file
-----/var/opt/wbem/repository.tar
u have to extract it by using
tar -xvf command ok

[HCL Ash]

This file contain the info about the CIM server .

If you dont not want that you can do gzip to file to get the more space.

[UniRock]

A tar file.

You can use:
# tar -tvf /var/opt/wbem/repository.tar

to its contents.