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vitiral on Sept 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Every file in TAR ends with 1KiB of zeros as “end ...

Thanks for the correction.

If space was so important then why waste 1KiB/file? Why waste namelen-100 bytes per file? Why put space into owner/group id?

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