I just tarred my '/' partition to my /opt partition on HDD 0, removed the 
HDD (HDD 1) it resided on and replaced it with a new HDD 0 containing a 
bigger '/' space, and untarred the '/' archive to the new partition. 
The newly installed '/' fs booted up and runs, but not without a small 
problem:

The permissions for some directories and files were not restored 
correctly. Problem seems to be write access for "others," where it had 
been set. Example: /dev/null; some files in /var/spool/mail.

Why did this happen, or better, what should I have done during 'tar -c' 
or 'tar -x' to prevent it? Is this a 'umask' problem?

Howard Arons
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