restoring FC1 to *new* partition from tar archive

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on May 9, Jeff Vian did say:

> In my many years of experience I have never used the numeric option, and 
> seldom used the -p option
> 
> I routinely use tar -cvf  (or czvf) to create the file and tar -xvf (or 
> xzvf) to extract it.  
> 
> AFAICT the numeric UID/GID is stored in the file from the source system, 
> and the numeric UID/GID is extracted with the file on the destination 
> system.  On systems where the username/UID pair from the source does not 
> match the username/UID pair from the destination, the file on the 
> destination is owned automatically by the user with the UID of the 
> original file.
> 
> I can and have tested this repeatedly and have found nothing unusual as 
> long as I remember that the ownership for extracted files will go to the 
> user with the matching UID and not necessarily to the matching username. 
> If there is no username that has a matching UID then the ownership 
> displays as the numeric UID  (see my earlier post on this for an example)
> 
> There are many options for tar that I seldom use and thus am not 
> familiar with.  But in my experience, your results are common.  YMMV

Well Thank you Jeff. For most purposes I two would probably use the same
options you do. Though it's only recently that I started using the z
option instead of manually "gzip"ing And "gunzip"ing the tar file.

But in this case I certainly wanted to preserve all permission settings
Thus the -p... 

Your description does help me understand the process a little better.

Thanks!

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