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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header
Message-ID:  <20210608094133.GA25151@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <2a280bc83d9a6289b3443329eb15bb0cb6c75063.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where a
> file on your runtime system comes from in the source world.

A tangential problem I trip over is "what is on this SD card?"

It generally takes me 5-10 minutes to remember:

  strings /<mount>/boot/kernel/kernel | tail

AFIAK it's the only way to be sure; nothing in /<mount>/* seems
to have that data.

(Yes, in theory they all live in their own little box each of
which is labeled but things happen ...)

mcl



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