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What are the relative merits of the various standard Unix archival utilities? [closed]
There are many archival tools for Unix, with varying degrees of availability. To make matters more confusing, many of them can write each other's formats.
I am seeking more information on their ...
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How to copy a list of files and adjust destination filenames on the fly?
When I don't need to adjust destination filenames I can do something like this:
$ find -type f -name '*.pat' -print0 | xargs -O cp -t /path/to/dest
It is safe because the filenames may even ...
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Getting “cpio: Bad magic” when trying to rpm install into a mounted Logical Volume
I need some help with this. I am trying to follow the Xen guide to provision a domU using package installation of the Fedora 15 release (the dom0 is CentOS 5.6). Ive run the rpm install command with ...
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How to generate initramfs image with busybox links?
Having been directed to initramfs by an answer to my earlier question (thanks!), I've been working on getting initramfs working. I can now boot the kernel and drop to a shell prompt, where I can ...
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Why use cpio for initramfs?
I am making my own initramfs following the Gentoo wiki. Instead of the familiar tar and gzip, the page is telling me to use cpio and gzip. Wikipedia says that cpio is used by the 2.6 kernel's ...
