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- From: johnm@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (John McCarthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: vendor independent file system format for M-O drives
- Message-ID: <54680001@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:16:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hpgrla.54680001
- References: <1992Dec11.152846.25238@drd.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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- |> Is there a file-system format I could format such a media to that has a
- |> liklihood of working across vendor platforms? I know that ISO-9660/Rock
- |> Ridge was intended to be such a format for CD-ROMs ... is it possible
- |> (or even desirable) to format M-O/RW media with that format so that it
- |> can be taken from system to system?
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- You might try using cpio -o|i to write/read the data on optical (or tape).
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- Something like
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- $ cd <appropriate dir>
- $ find . -print | cpio -oacB | dd ibs=5k obs=32k of=/dev/rdsk/mo
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- should work
-
- when you get home try
-
- $ cd <appropriate dir>
- dd if=/dev/rdsk/mo | cpio -icumdB
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- Of course you have to have your filesystem on local hard disk but you
- can transport your data.
-
- |Also, I'd think twice about using the MO drive as a home drive. It's slow,
- |like really slow, to use. Well, maybe not that slow, but I'd think
- |twice about using it as a heavily used filesystem.
-
- Depends on which drive your using:). Try HP's new C1716C/F!
-
- John "my views are my own, etc" McCarthy
- HP/Greeley Storage Division
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