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- From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Bugs in LINUX tar (?)
- Message-ID: <Bx8G3M.DBE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:42:57 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Last night I switched from minix FS to ext FS. Here are the steps
- I went through:
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- * tarred my whole filesystem using gnu tar, split tarfile onto floppies.
- * reformatted hard disk using mkefs.
- * reloaded software from floppy using the tar on the 0.98 rootdisk.
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- Much to my chagrin, though, the tar on the root floppy didn't seem
- to quite understand the tarfile format: it loaded the files up ok,
- and got all the chmod bits right, but got most of the file ownerships
- wrong! Needless to say, this took a long time to fix.
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- It may be important that I use UID's greater than 1000... although
- I can't see why that would be a problem, it IS unusual.
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