From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 15:05:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA27899 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27891 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by central.picker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0urAIS-0004sTC; Thu, 15 Aug 96 17:49 EDT Received: from elmer.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29966; Thu, 15 Aug 96 17:48:28 EDT Received: by elmer.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA20231; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:43:16 -0400 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Message-Id: <199608152143.RAA20231@elmer.picker.com> Subject: Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD? To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608151734.MAA16903@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Aug 15, 96 12:34:18 pm Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com Organization: Picker International, CT Division X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Tinguely: |> Mount your Win 95 partition and read about 'dump'. Dump your Win 95 |> partition to the tape, but be forewarned that whatever long filenames you |> have will be truncated to their 8.3 counterparts. | |I think you want to use "tar", or "cpio". Dump uses the raw devices and |expects a Unix filesystem, whereas tar and cpio use emulated filesystem. We can't mount VFAT and keep the long filenames yet, can we? This is one caveat of using mentioned mount/{tar,cpio} technique (unless I missed a VFAT announcement -- I think Robert Nordier is working on adding this). Randall Hopper rhh@ct.picker.com