It would appear that on May 13, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha did say: > Information in DOS boot sector. And in older DOS, the boot files had to be > in specific locations. > > There are other issues with using tar: > 1) dosfs uses a different set of attributes: hidden, archive, system and > read-only, and only the read-only bit is exported/used under linux > 2) dosfs has two entries for long filenames: the shorter version and the > longer version split in several parts. I wouldn't expect problems when > software use the long names, but when extracting the files under linux > there's no guarantee that the short name will be the same as before. If > any software (under windows) uses the short name directly, then you're > likely to have problems. Thank you for the warning... Guess I'll continue to make partimage partition backups of /dev/hda1 then... ;) It's still a fair mix of linux based system back-up. The gentoo linux partimage cd includes tar and gzip/gunzip so it doesn't hurt to bundle one of those with every archive set anyway... -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
