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Re: Converting ext3->XFS



On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:43:46 +0200
Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> wrote:

> > 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'.

To be just a tad more specific, check out the "-p" option to tar.

-- 
Todd Pytel

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