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From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
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Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:01:56 +1100 (EST)
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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