cp -ar question

[John Summerfied]

Craig White wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
He's not backing up 27 Gb to flash. Almost certainly there's a real disk 
there and OP has the sense to put an ext3 or other Linux filesystem there.


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