pax in /rescue

chinsan chinsan.tw at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 06:12:14 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <1f27304c0809062222m724603dat2fb1af63dba5faa6 at mail.gmail.com>
>            chinsan <chinsan.tw at gmail.com> writes:
> : On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> : > Is there any reason to continue to include both tar and pax in
> : > /rescue?
> : >
> : Maybe for rescue some important file?
>
> tar can read all the formats that pax can read.  Why the duplication
> in functionality?

Oh, you are right. :p

>
> : BTW, could editors/e3 be include into /rescue?
> : I think it's ineed to have a text editor to edit some file for rescue.
> : Because vi(1) lives in /usr/bin.
>
> /rescue already has nvi.

But nvi needs terminfo(5), so it needs to mount /usr filesystem too.


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