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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Bugs in LINUX tar (?)
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 09:04:57 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
-
- >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.
- >
-
- It sounds as if you changed userid's from when you tarred up the system
- and when you restored it. I have noticed this problem when I untar something
- I get off of ftp. If I am root and untar it the ownerships stay the same
- as the person who tarred it up. Gnu tar has some option to stop this I
- am sure, but I can't remember it off hand.
-
- James
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