egs@killer.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) (05/26/88)
Hello World! I currently have a System V/AT system running, using a secondary 117M Disk with a file system on it, and am bringing up a System V/386 machine. What I want to do is mount the 117M drive as a file system on the System V/386 machine and copy the file system onto another drive ( I have to return the 117M drive ). Are there any problems with this idea? Are the file systems compatiable? what about mounting readonly? I don't really look forward to the idea of backing everything up to floppy to do the drive change. Thanks In Advance Eric Schnoebelen ..!killer!u-word!egs
root@uwspan.UUCP (Sue Peru Sr.) (05/26/88)
+---- egs@killer.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) writes in <4178@killer.UUCP> ---- | I don't really look forward to the idea of backing everything [117Mb] | up to floppy to do the drive change. +---- Speaking from several bad experiences (if it bites you once, its an accident, if it bites you again, you are a fool!), WHENEVER that little voice inside says ""I'd rather not back up this drive"" you can be 100% sure that you will clobber the data completely. Remember, Mr. Murphy gets his jollies by making SURE you follow each of these phrases: "I'm only going to update one of the unused filesystems with divvy...", "I can use format to fix that bad sector without bothering anything" "I can re-install drive 0 without backing up drive 1" with the one word: "oops" :-( Believe me, it ***IS*** worth the bother to back it up onto hundreds of floppies! It is much more of a bother to type it all in again. (At this point, tape backup salesmen start seeing $$$$ :-) -John (He's been there...) Plocher -- Comp.Unix.Microport is now unmoderated! Use at your own risk :-)