FC4 tar is out of control

[Mogens Kjaer]

Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:19 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
...
>>I don't think star is present when you boot in rescue mode,
>>making it difficult to do a bare metal recovery of the system.
> 
> If you make the star archive GNU tar compatible, you combine the
> convenience of creation using star and the compatibility with tar during
> rescue mode.

I use star to back up an ACL enabled ext3 /home partition. I had
to make this a separate partition so that I could:

1. restore /boot and / from rescue mode with tar.
2. boot.
3. restore /home with star.

Mogens
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