[Pkg-zsh-devel] statically linked rescue utilities in 2020s?

Marco d'Itri md at linux.it
Mon Sep 7 10:36:57 BST 2026


On Sep 07, Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:

>After receiving several bug reports about busybox-static package and its
>issues initrd, a bigger question come to mind -- Why do we need these
>statically-linked utilities these days?
I need busybox-static basically to do things like:

deboostrap ... /mnt/
cd /
busybox ash
  mkdir OLD
  mv * OLD/
  mv OLD/mnt/* .

Actually I wanted do deprecate sash in favour of busybox-static, 
which is much more capable.

For recovery I think that grml-rescueboot beats everything. :-)

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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