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Date:      Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:39:04 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD
Message-ID:  <20050619033904.GB3061@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050618061603.GM50157@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <20050617214658.GA41804@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <58826.1119044951@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050617220222.GA42080@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050617220653.GA114@saltmine.radix.net> <20050617221353.GA48584@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20050618061603.GM50157@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:16:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> If you're looking for ways to save space in /rescue, there are other
> low-hanging fruit before you start moving to yet another editor:
..
> - routed, rtquery, rtsol (recovering a hosed system shouldn't need a
>   routing daemon - a static route to the backup server should do)
> - id (there's no 'su' so how can I be anything other than root?)

Good grief.  Why are those in /rescue?

> - pax (when the new libarchive tar is available)

Pax does more than just tar archives.  Can libarchive'ed tar handle cpio
archives?

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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