title: How to untar large tarball file within disk space constraints?
body: <p>We need to extract five files from a tarball file that contains over 30 files and expands to about 60 GB upon unpacking. Unfortunately, we only have about 20 GB free on the machine. The five files needed only take about 5 GB unpacked.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to extract only these five files within our disk space constraints?</p>
  
  <p>Using <code>tar xvjf &lt;archive&gt; &lt;file&gt;</code> doesn't seem to work.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>