Re: file compressing and attributes

"Claus" == Claus Hoevelmann <claus.hoevelmann@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Claus> Hi
>> Give the full path of the file to tar. e.g. tar czvf
>> foobar.tar.gz /home/foo/foo.bar

Claus> That's the problem. After extracting as root the
Claus> directories' attributes are set to root's uid/gid. Only
Claus> foo.bar is owned by user foo.

Did you try the following?

tar czvf foobar.tar.gz /home/foo/foo.bar /home/foo /home


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