On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:46 -0600, John Pierce wrote: > > if /media/usbdisk is some foreign type of file system (i.e. vfat), > > permissions aren't supported. > > > I agree, but if you store your home directories on a vfat file system, > when you bring them back you will also have lost ownership as well, > userid and groupid will have gone away. > > If you want to back up your home directories then you should create a > file system that is the same as the one you use for your live > installation. > > I would not backup my linux file systems on a vfat partition! ---- I think you can preserve the permissions if you tarball them onto a vfat partition and extract them on the appropriate partition (i.e. ext3) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
