From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 2 17:58:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA03511 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 17:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-41.iafrica.com [196.31.98.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03499 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 17:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id CAA15989; Sat, 3 May 1997 02:54:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199705030054.CAA15989@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again) In-Reply-To: from "Jay D. Nelson" at "May 2, 97 06:36:32 pm" To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 02:53:58 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] 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 Jay D. Nelson wrote: > Thanks for the response. In my blissful ignorance, I deleted some files > and directories -- which didn't bother FreeBSD a bit. From what you're > telling me, it's not wise to tar up the dos file system to restore after > the format. Is there a gnuish version of tar... I'll grin and bear it. > > Thanks. I'd suggest backing up/restoring in DOS, though that may be over cautious. I have a GNU tar for DOS, which seems to work very well. Don't think it handles long filenames, though. -- Robert Nordier