On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:38, Ronan Waide wrote:
> Just to clarify: this is a Novell-formatted disk (whatever that means)
> that I have no intention of ever having to restore ever again. I'm
> turning the Netware box into a Linux box and transplanting the data
> elsewhere, but I want to have an emergency backup that can just be
> smooshed straight back into a properly-sized partition and "just
> work".
Given the price of disks now (damn near less / GB than a DLT tape, in fact),
wouldn't it be better just to label that disk, put it on a shelf, and put a
new disk into the box in its Linux incarnation ?
Niall
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