+----- On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:05:21 EST, Howard Arons writes:
|
| 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?
The p flag effectively sets umask to 0, you should always use it for
such tasks. Strangely this is implied in Sun's tar when run as root but
apparently not in GNU's.
/Michael
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