Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition
> I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm
>
according to /usr/share/misc/magic gnu tar archives contain the magic
"ustar". however, i found, that it's not at the beginning of the archive.
the archive starts with the name of the first archived file/directory
padded with a bunch of zeroes.
hth
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