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From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some Filesystem Stuff I Cooked Up...
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 02:39:48 EDT
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In article <4049@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>diskcopy df0a: df0b:?
>
>	Grindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrindgrind.....
>
>	Actually, DiskCopy would suddenly have to become more intelligent.
>It would have to compare volume sizes (assuming we wanted it to operate on
>volumes, not just the raw block device).  If the sizes were different,
>DiskCopy would abort.
>
>	Interesting theories, no?

You should allow small file systems to copied into larger file systems as
long as there is enough free space in the larger one.

Hans