Re: man permissions
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> (diffidently), pardon me, but should the tar at the end of the
> pipe not have -p, as in
> tar lcf - / | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfpsSWU -)
> ------^
> which may have preserved permissions? (I threw in the other
> options which I like).
I'll have to play around with this. I wasn't aware that `tar xvf' didn't
preserve permissions (I've nerver had problems).
But I'm always willing to learn something new!
(Gee... Maybe I should reinstall from scratch...)
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