Craig White wrote:
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!
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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
He's not backing up 27 Gb to flash. Almost certainly there's a real disk
there and OP has the sense to put an ext3 or other Linux filesystem there.
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Cheers
John
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