Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:28:46AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:I think you are confusing /restore/ with /use/. It can be /restored/ using any system. The ownership is numeric and does not change on a differnent system.
Running without -p and --numeric-owner could cause some problems:I'm hoping you mean that as long as the source and destination
-p: preserves permissions. Without this, the permissions of extracted
files will be affected by the value of umask.
--numeric-owner: if you had created the tar.gz under FC1 and extracted it
under MDK, different values for same users in /etc/passwd could cause
problems. As you made the tar and extracted it under FC1, you shouldn't
worry about this one.
filesystems have an IDENTICAL /etc/password... I shouldn't worry?
That's right, but only for the --numeric-owner. Without -p, some files may be created without the proper permissions.
Here's a way to check the permission of files installed in your system: rpm -qf $(rpm -V --nodeps --nomd5 --noscripts $(rpm -qa) | grep '^.M' | sed 's/.* //') | sort -u
Actually I did use mdk to create the tar from an FC1 filesystem. And I
used mdk to restore it as a complete FC1 filesystem... I'm thinking the
problems would be if I tried to restore it TO the mdk filesystem. (I hope)
No, only if you tried to restore it _under_ a different system.
The user ids are a problem if /used/ on a system where the group and passwd files define different userids for the owners.
Regards, Luciano Rocha
