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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with tape backup
Date: 4 May 1996 11:00:17 GMT
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t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) wrote:

> : 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.

Btw., pre-existing data are not that much on a risk at all, only newly
written files.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)