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From: rjn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re^2: HP 7958S disk question
Message-ID: <5570278@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 89 15:27:31 GMT
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re: "I'm also not sure I understand your comment about the tape cartridges.
     Is this the fact that you can only fit 60Mb on a single uncompressed 16
     track 1/4 cartridge?  If so, I don't see that partitioning helps that
     any."

If you keep your partition sizes under 67 Mbytes (or 134 for the 9145A),
you can make "image" backups of each filesystem.   The random/re-writeable
feature of "brain-damaged" HP tape drives then permits you to access your
backup tapes by *mounting* them as filesystems.  QIC drives can't do this.

Personally, the annoyance of small partitions is not offset by this
recovery advantage.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland        rjn%hpfcrjn@hplabs.HP.COM           3404 East Harmony Road
                  [hplabs|hpu...!hpfcse]!rjn          Ft Collins CO 80525-9599