cp -ar question
Vikram Goyal
vikigoyal at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 16:27:42 UTC 2005
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:31:24AM -0700
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: cp -ar question
> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:46 -0600, John Pierce wrote:
> > > if /media/usbdisk is some foreign type of file system (i.e. vfat),
> > > permissions aren't supported.
> > >
> > I agree, but if you store your home directories on a vfat file system,
> > when you bring them back you will also have lost ownership as well,
> > userid and groupid will have gone away.
> >
> > If you want to back up your home directories then you should create a
> > file system that is the same as the one you use for your live
> > installation.
> >
> > I would not backup my linux file systems on a vfat partition!
> ----
> I think you can preserve the permissions if you tarball them onto a vfat
> partition and extract them on the appropriate partition (i.e. ext3)
>
> Craig
>
>
Right,
tar -cps target-dir/ > /some-vfat-partition/target-dir.tar
For a compressed tar.
tar -cps target-dir/|bzip2 -9 > /some-vfat-partition/target-dir.tbz
OR
tar -cjf /some-vfat-paretition/foo.tar.bz2 bar/
should do it.
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vikram...
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