cp -ar question
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 28 06:25:36 UTC 2005
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!
>
> ----
> 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.
--
Cheers
John
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