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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.195152.23263@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <724522852.AA26653@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:51:52 GMT
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- Steve.Harrington@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Harrington) writes:
- >Actually the efs author has also mentioned that he will release
- >a program to convert to the new file system. A backup and restore
- >won't be necessary.
-
- A backup is still very, very, very advisable. Backing up before doing
- anything dramatic is always a good idea. (What if the conversion
- program has a subtle bug that only manifests itself on your machine?)
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
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