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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Re: Dont use mv on DOS fs
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 07:26:04 GMT
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Daniel Ortmann (ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu) wrote:
: Ditto for performing a "tar xzvf /mnt/tmp/freebsd/*", where the dos
: partition is mounted on /mnt. The answer there is to copy the files
Hmmm. I restored about 200 Megs of DOS data from tape by mounting my
DOS disk from FreeBSD and writing it out. This was months ago. It
also included 70 Megs worth of Microstation install (which is pretty
fussy, being a large CADD program.) It also included DOOM, Windows,
and piles of other stuff. I run FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, with SCSI disks.
Now, using mv or rm is definitely a BAD idea on a DOS partition, but a
simple (not recursive) cp or tar xvf works well for me. My DOS data
is on a seperate physical disk from my FreeBSD data (I dont' trust DOS
to live on the same disk with my real data) so that may have something
to do with it.
I do normally mount /dos read-only, but when I need to, I unmount and
remount /dos from single-user mode and do the copies right before
shutting down and switching to DOS. I run chkdsk/f on DOS boot, and
have never had any trouble with this procedure.
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