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From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Saving data
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Date: 2 May 2011 09:45:33 -0500
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In article <iphmb9$3ah$1@dont-email.me>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Also, on unix, if you spell the device wrong.
> 
> tar cf /dev/tpae .
> 
> it will write a file into /dev instead of onto the tape.

   If /dev is protected correctly, only root can make this mistake.
   Of course, root may be needed to make sure all the files of a
   collection of users can be read.