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From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape Backup help
Date: 15 Oct 1996 15:24:43 GMT
Organization: not this decade...
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Message-ID: <540abr$8ju@yama.mcc.ac.uk>
References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>That's not right. You can always specify the raw device explicitly.
True (just checked). I'd been using the block device instead. I should have
known that -- same problem with Solaris 2.
Incidentally, the "fix" for partitions > 2Gb in FreeBSD is the most cunning
one I've seen so far. Whoever had that idea: have a virtual beer on me. :-)
Ian.
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