-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/18/2011 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/18/2011 01:18 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> Yes by default it will have stripped them on archiving. Since they >> were archived with the full path otherwise you can using -C / will get >> the original full path back: >> tar xf marcia.tar.bz2 -C / >> Do this as user 'marcia' and you should be okay for UIDs on extraction >> (it will also prevent it accidentally extracting somewhere else on the >> filesystem). > > Note that I did this as root (using sudo, as it's on Ubuntu) to make > sure all permissions were preserved. Wouldn't it be best to restore it > the same way, for the same reason? And, there was exactly one user on > the old box, as there will be on the new installation. Yes, you would want to do this as root. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOnePFAAoJEF1Xw4ZWTEoJd8MP/269AGElefvPNUJEKJ6lse7A HpZ90kHXju+BmvH4M1Iy+rJD07UoGzQ0vr2CTY8Ky0p8kRPlQ3FS+ERygBi/lBpB r2AM1cqYh88XLkI4oHI3WDOqX49dQkaOIR+6baLYB6lPtKYWmbq6kk0jbz5O8tUC 5Wu2vVn/F//Y6GTJdawcCN+NT9nCrMViG7V6z0JUtlHI87CTlwrkqSYKv9JfvhqW DxADFN/UTeCfGS/ogWBbgcO7KwXxUnRpsoAf0WTBq0ZN5bU7niPLad+ECGenKvLb Bc10fydAKIGSH7bbt+wODoIHfZJr15OF3RbwYf71SDbfn0hA6tF+APPhZvjmAaLW Axp7FrKSWHABL7zBfSUeXhLOmTqoTePLy6e5akADcAdRI6cvCatBWrkcHyb1lDbM ufWQ411O17vVsVV5j/TXJBxsHLn5CSDsJ3tBUr5e79PgDHrVMr1X/D3go3o7YeWh Eb1FNRY9RtOXeXlCgdT1udjYZ63fBxonj26YHJP9Y1vneDqmWrOirzZdSj7t7upz s/VaQ7MJgJqvQJuDND48FmvtMBpBZISSqwse1QLkqxwomat7jvKizFffAevQ5wZD VK48ioEvF965rN9h4Pidqd3u49Wx/p43abMf+eKmoPRjbCiQJvqjxUGNMkQWdERo GdEXivvMTcKa/bvw/Jdf =h4uu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
