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From: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Floppy Boot, Filesystem, and Diags (was Re: 3.5" floppy disk revisited)
Message-ID: <210@aob.aob.mn.org>
Date: 6 May 89 21:31:09 GMT
References: <695@icus.islp.ny.us> <629@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <698@icus.islp.ny.us> <777@jonlab.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
Organization: Anderson O-Brien, Inc., St. Paul, MN
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In article <777@jonlab.UUCP> jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
>In article <698@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>If space becomes a premium on the floppy, a few blocks could be saved
>by linking mv to cp and ln, then changing permissions on them to
>match /bin/mv on the HD (4755, root owner).

At first, I thought this was a bad idea, as cp, ln may not be expecting
suid root permissions, but for this case, since the user on the floppy
disk should be root anyway, this should not be a problem (also, the programs
do not need to be suid at that point).
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