Re: About RockRidge

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com>]

--On January 24, 2006 11:20:54 AM +0800 Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> My purpose using RockRidge is retaining oringal ownership and
> permission to solve following problem;

1) use tar, 2) cp does not usually retain permissions, nor ownership 
properly, it requires appropriate flags.

But the answer you're really looking for is tar.  honest.

> I burnt /home/ of a FC3 box on CDs. /home/ was on its own partition.
> Then running LFS LiveCD I copied the CDs on a partition of a new HD
> which has 6 partitions. I'm prepared to build LFS-->BLFS on the new HD
> applying LFS LiveCD as host. Later I discovered all data after
> transferred from the CDs onto the partitions became "read only" and
> permission changed from User to Root. Now I need to reinstate their
> original state, i.e. Write/Read, User, etc. Either I have to do it
> manually or to re-burn the data from /home/ of the FC3 box onto the
> CDs.
>
> Could you folks on the List please shed me some light. TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>
>
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