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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: USB Flash Drive
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On 2004-11-30 19:29, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> wrote:
> As a follow-up, I have had good success with putting a UFS on flash
> drives.

HEH :-)

So, I'm not the only one who uses UFS on his USB flash drives.  Nice!

> They then make a great backup device, and you can keep all the file
> permissions with either tar or cp -rp.  The latter wastes some space,
> but makes it very easy to recover single files.

I do that a lot of times too.  Extracting individual files from tar
archives on a flash disk is not that hard:

	# cd /tmp
	# tar xzvf /mnt/jflash/mdoc/file.tgz mdoc/foo/bar/blah.mdoc