On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote: > I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files > will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this > shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right?
well: these files define the id<->name mapping. which is never really the same for two systems because of the dynamical nature of these. if you copy them from one system to the other, the on-disk ownership of _other_ files will be wrong. -- c u henning
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