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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: backing up MS-DOS filesystem with "tar"
Date: 2 Aug 1994 15:21:07 -0700
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <31mgsj$7l1@linda.teleport.com>
References: <31e275$12e@qualcomm.com> <STARK!GENE.94Aug1151048@stark.uucp>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com
Just another data point: tar works fine here for DOS filesystems under
FreeBSD 1.1(BETA). I had to back up and restore a 200MB DOS partition
when I resized some filesystems and it worked perfectly.
>In article <31e275$12e@qualcomm.com> bri@qualcomm.com (Brian Ellis) writes:
>
> Can anyone think of a reason that an MS-DOS partition cannot be
> restored to its original state by tar???
>
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