Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:01:56 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Message-ID: <199703242301.KAA01562@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19970324214916.YH08116@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 24, 97 09:49:16 pm
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In some mail I received from J Wunsch, sie wrote > > As Darren Reed wrote: > > > Well, after a days work, it's done. well, I think it works :) > > Not bad. ;-) > > > Unfortunately, restore doesn't work with the dump file created, but I'm > > not sure yet whether it is because it isn't a UFS dump or I've not done > > something right. > > Restore shouldn't be much dependent on UFS features. Unlike > (ufs)dump, it works at file level, not at disk level. > > > If you want to grab it and play, it is at: > > > > ftp://ftp.cyber.com.au/pub/unix/msdump.tgz > > Better name it `dosdump'? Remember, there's more DOSes than just M$. > Also, we do already have a mkdosfs(8), maybe somebody would even write > a dosfsck(8). (mkdosfs doesn't understand harddisks however. I'm not > the right person to ask for this, my DOS knowledge is too weak.) I'm told there already is a fsck_msdos for NetBSD...I just need to get a later rev. of NetBSD installed. Darren
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