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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: dump formats same in Free,NetBSD? Date: 6 Jul 1994 00:26:21 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2vctnd$sp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2v7h78$9s9@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2v7h78$9s9@dopey.cc.utexas.edu>, Vax <vax@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> wrote: >I wanted to make sure that dump file formats for FreeBSD and NetBSD were the >same, so that I could restore a NetBSD partition on a FreeBSD system. >Don't see any reason why not, but it's an important thing to make sure of. Unless NetBSD has many any incompatible changes to the FFS format (highly doubtful) it should work fine. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.