Re: how to preserve permission and ownership ?

"Gideon N. Guillen" <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:38:08 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.philippine.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/6/05, sp@rt@cus <[email protected]> wrote:
> problem after decomressing the files, permission and ownership are intact=
. I
> got this problem when i tried to move the backup files to the fat32 mount=
ed
> hard disk. All my permission are gone when i untar them. how can i preser=
ve
> the perm and ownership for these files ?

If I understand you correctly, you moved that .tar file to the FAT32
partition and you extracted it there? If that's the case, you really
won't get the correct permissions because FAT32 doesn't support
UNIX-style permissions.

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Gideon N. Guillen
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