pax in /rescue

Julian Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Mon Sep 8 09:46:47 UTC 2008


Hi,
Reference:
> From:		chinsan <chinsan.tw at gmail.com> 
> Date:		Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:22:44 +0800 
> Message-id:	<1f27304c0809062222m724603dat2fb1af63dba5faa6 at mail.gmail.com> 

chinsan wrote:
> 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?
> 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.

No, use ed, ed has been in Unix 30+ years. /bin/ed

> ps. e3 is a full featured text editor written in NASM assembler.  It is highly
> optimized for size.

No, FreeBSD is not just i386.

Cheers,
Julian
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