On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files > with odd permissions, tar it, untar it, and see what happens.
Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and it works.
If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file ownerships to
user.user instead of owner.group
Nice, xfs here i come ....
Tom
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