thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) (10/01/89)
I have noticed that when transferring an entire filesystem from one disk to another (to a new filesystem just created there) using the output of dump piped into restore, the directory files created on the output disk were all owned by root, although the files within each directory had proper ownerships. I used something like this: % dump 0f - /usr | (cd /newusr; restore xf -) I was logged in as root at the time. Does anyone know why the directory ownerships were not preserved correctly? I see nothing in the man pages that tells me why. Thanks, Steve
rwood@dec.com (Richard Wood) (10/07/89)
The last question restore asks (at least in interactive mode) is whether you want it to set the original owner, mode, etc. I suspect that if you answer this question incorrectly, everything will remain owned by the uid that ran restore. Is it possible this is what happened? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Wood Corporate Worksystems Team Digital Equipment Corp. ================================================================================