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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup Date: 4 May 1996 11:00:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4mfdc1$lob@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31752B90.73EA@shoreland.com> <4l6e1t$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31797F55.1422@bcgi.com> <4le8ep$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> <317D143D.516F@bcgi.com> <4lkn25$qa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DqJp50.AoG.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4mcpbl$2pc@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) wrote: > : Presumably only for filesystems which the install program newfs'd (or > : which were empty)? > > Anyone installing a new OS version onto a partition (or for that matter > system) containing data they cannot afford to lose needs their head > examining anyway. Btw., pre-existing data are not that much on a risk at all, only newly written files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)