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Use a different link indicator#1

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@reynir reynir commented Sep 30, 2024

This fine article about how to create a tar archive that is also an executable mentions that the 'V' link indicator, a volume header, results in the content being skipped in GNU tar. This is desirable for us for the GPT header.

And use a nicer file mode 0644 for the test archive.
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reynir commented Oct 4, 2024

Now also upgraded to tar.3.0.0

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