Re: restoring FC1 to *new* partition from tar archive

From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange_at_nsk.no-ip.org)
Date: 05/09/04

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To: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@ttlc.net>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:28:46AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
    > > Running without -p and --numeric-owner could cause some problems:
    > > -p: preserves permissions. Without this, the permissions of extracted
    > > files will be affected by the value of umask.
    > > --numeric-owner: if you had created the tar.gz under FC1 and extracted it
    > > under MDK, different values for same users in /etc/passwd could cause
    > > problems. As you made the tar and extracted it under FC1, you shouldn't
    > > worry about this one.
    >
    > I'm hoping you mean that as long as the source and destination
    > filesystems have an IDENTICAL /etc/password... I shouldn't worry?

    That's right, but only for the --numeric-owner. Without -p, some files may
    be created without the proper permissions.

    Here's a way to check the permission of files installed in your system:
    rpm -qf $(rpm -V --nodeps --nomd5 --noscripts $(rpm -qa) | grep '^.M' |
    sed 's/.* //') | sort -u

    > Actually I did use mdk to create the tar from an FC1 filesystem. And I
    > used mdk to restore it as a complete FC1 filesystem... I'm thinking the
    > problems would be if I tried to restore it TO the mdk filesystem. (I hope)

    No, only if you tried to restore it _under_ a different system.

    Regards,
    Luciano Rocha 

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