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From: z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: reading a dump tape with no root directory?
Message-ID: <1712@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 20:34:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 20:34:00 1986
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Organization: Xerox: Henrietta, NY
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When dumping a damaged filesystem it is possible to create a dump file with
no root directory.  On 4.2BSD at least this is a fatal error when restoring.
Has anyone written some utilities to get files by inodes from a dump file?

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