On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:29:23 +0100 Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: > On Friday 22 Aug 2003 11:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..the good old way is tarball your data, 'mkfs.xfs $dev' or > > somesuch, and thenafter drop in your tarballed data. > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files with odd permissions, tar it, untar it, and see what happens. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band : Skeletons From The Closet Today is Sweetmorn, the 12nd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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