9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] manual dumps
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:53:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020110135336.A91598@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3DE08E.8ED731FE@strakt.com>; from boyd@strakt.com on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:42:22PM +0100

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:42:22PM +0100, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> Russ Cox wrote:
> > boyd, you posted some script to do manual dumps with tar.
> > you might be interested in dump9660 (see mk9660(8)) too
>
> Thanks, but given there's not much I can do with such images,
> given the brilliant CD burning s/w I have on windows, it's a bit
> of a moot point.

Current Windows software won't let you burn an ISO image?
Certainly the Adaptec software I used here before I got
my own CD burner did, but that was two years or more ago.

I'm glad we finally got around to putting RRIP into dump9660.
It's very useful as a poor man's dumpfs under Unix -- I use
it for everything but mail (stupid O(n^2) growth).

 -WJ


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10 18:23 Russ Cox
2002-01-10 18:42 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-10 18:53   ` William Josephson [this message]
2002-01-10 19:07     ` Matt
2002-01-10 19:26       ` William Josephson
2002-01-11  9:48     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-01-11 12:21       ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-10 18:51 Russ Cox
2002-01-11  4:39 okamoto
2002-01-11  4:54 ` William Josephson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20020110135336.A91598@honk.eecs.harvard.edu \
    --to=jkw@eecs.harvard.edu \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).