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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, giles@nemeton.com.au
Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ?
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        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
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>This is becoming a FAQ.  Two enhancements to tools that might help
>would be:
>
>	o making newfs add superblock numbers to /etc/sbtab like
>	  HP-UX does (caveats on / being mounted read-write etc)

Something should put them in /var/backups.  I keep backups of MBRs
and labels there.  File systems made with the defaults don't need
to be recorded unless the defaults change, since they are machine-
generated.  However, Lite2 may change the defaults.

Bruce