Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:20:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <3F16DAFA.41E237F8@mindspring.com> References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote:
> - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
I agree with everything but this one. Neither of these things can
make sparse files.
The reason that this is important is that you might boot /rescue
in a last attempt to move data off a dying hard disk to another
machine. Even if the disk is merely totally hosed and is going
to be reformatted, the ability ro dump its entire contents to a
remote system with a similarly (or smaller) sized disk is useful.
-- Terry
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