cp -ar question

[Craig White]

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


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