Re: Converting ext3->XFS

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Friday 22 August 2003 14:46, Tom Badran wrote:
> On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and it
> works. If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file ownerships
> to user.user instead of owner.group

Yes.  see 'man tar'.

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richard