[thelist] Tar and maintaining permissions....
Anthony Baratta
Anthony at Baratta.com
Tue Dec 26 23:58:34 CST 2000
I know there are some linux heads here who can set me straight. I guess its
not good to cry for help the day before a long holiday weekend. ;-)
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 directory. The files copy, but without the proper
>permissions.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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Anthony Baratta
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