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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co.uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup Date: 3 May 1996 11:06:29 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4mcpbl$2pc@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <4l6e1t$1oj@uriah.heep.sax.de> <317D143D.516F@bcgi.com> <4lkn25$qa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DqJp50.AoG.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <4lkn25$qa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: : >Err, now you should see the latest SNAP's! We are now installing with : >the file systems mounted async : Presumably only for filesystems which the install program newfs'd (or : which were empty)? Anyone installing a new OS version onto a partition (or for that matter system) containing data they cannot afford to lose needs their head examining anyway. :-) (speaking as one who has done it often, and cannot afford a shrink but now has a DAT drive instead :-> ) -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Paradise Green Technical Services: S'ware/Hw design and Theatre Tech. Services