-----Original Message----- From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:31:24AM -0700 To For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: cp -ar question > 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 > > Right, tar -cps target-dir/ > /some-vfat-partition/target-dir.tar For a compressed tar. tar -cps target-dir/|bzip2 -9 > /some-vfat-partition/target-dir.tbz OR tar -cjf /some-vfat-paretition/foo.tar.bz2 bar/ should do it. -- vikram... o ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795
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