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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: packdisk on Xenix
Keywords: packdisk xenix
Message-ID: <254766F5.13495@ateng.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 20:20:04 GMT
References: <1191@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer):
>My only feelings is that it is faster to do a complete backup, verify,
>mkfs, and restore of a filesystem than it is to run packdisk.

Yes, but once you've cleaned your disk you can't interrupt the procedure
until you've finished the restoration.  Packdisk can be interrupted.
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