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Subject: Re: How to backup an executor partition??
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At 07:42 PM 5/21/96 GMT, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>spirit encourages deeply nested folders and *long* file names such as
>"My favorite high school term paper from 9'th grade". (Allowing spaces
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the longest filename Macs will allow - 31 characters, thus with
the default settings tar can handle three levels with full length
filenames. Of course, on an ext2 filesystem, you're tempted to create
255 character filenames (DON'T DO IT! they're a pain to type)