On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:28:46AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Running without -p and --numeric-owner could cause some problems: > > -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. > > I'm hoping you mean that as long as the source and destination > 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. Regards, Luciano Rocha
