[thelist] RE: Tar and maintaining permissions....
djc
djc at five2one.org
Wed Dec 27 00:58:11 CST 2000
Tony -
You're really close with what you're doing now.. Try something like this:
tar cpf - * | ( umask 0; cd /new/dir; tar -xvfp - )
the umask 0 will ensure that new files have the same permissions as the
old ones.
That should do the trick for ya, let me know if it doesnt :)
.djc.
ps: sorry about list downtime this weekend, should be somewhat more kosher
now.
At 11:54 AM 12/22/2000 -0800, Anthony Baratta wrote:>Howdy...>
>I'm trying to move a large (couple of Gigs) set of files and directories
>to a new hard drive on my linux box and I'm having problems maintaining
>permissions during the move. Can I get another set of eyeballs on my tar
>command and maybe tell me what I'm doing wrong?>
> tar cpf - *|(cd /new/dir;tar xvpf -)>
>I'm launching the above command while root, from the olde base directory.
>/new/dir is the new base d
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