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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:34:41 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q:How to replace 9load in the 9fat partition?
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> If it's not significantly bigger than before, just cp it.  If its
> permission bits change, you need to use disk/format as shown in man
> prep, with all the pertinent provisos.

this isn't true.  as forsyth said, all you have to do
is chmod +al it if the permission bits change.
if chmod fails, then you might need to do some
moving things around to make some contiguous
disk space.

russ