I can't seem to preserve the atime of files when archiving and extracting. Can somebody show me what I'm doing wrong? Here are the steps I'm using:
$ tar -version tar (GNU tar) 1.20 $ uname -a Linux blahHostName 2.6.5-7.283-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 29 16:55:53 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ pwd blahDir/ $ touch -t 02010000 blah $ ls -lu blah -rw-rw-r-- 1 <user> <group> 0 2008-02-01 00:00 blah $ tar -jcf blah.tz2 blah --atime-preserve $ cd .. $ tar -jxf blahDir/blah.tz2 $ ls -lu blah -rw-rw-r-- 1 <user> <group> 0 2008-11-08 10:32 blah
