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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: dump formats same in Free,NetBSD?
Date: 6 Jul 1994 00:26:21 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <2v7h78$9s9@dopey.cc.utexas.edu>,
Vax <vax@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>I wanted to make sure that dump file formats for FreeBSD and NetBSD were the
>same, so that I could restore a NetBSD partition on a FreeBSD system.
>Don't see any reason why not, but it's an important thing to make sure of.

Unless NetBSD has many any incompatible changes to the FFS format (highly
doubtful) it should work fine.


Nate
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