Every OpenBSD admin has booted
bsd.rdat least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system. But few people stop to look at what’s actually inside that file. It turns outbsd.rdis a set of nested layers, and you can take it apart on a running system without rebooting anything.That’s what we’ll do here. We’ll go from the raw gzip file all the way down to the miniroot filesystem, exploring each layer with standard tools. Everything is documented in the man pages — we’re just following the trail.
↫ Wesley Mouedine Assaby
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