You've got a few options. The simplest is to create a tar archive and put that on a cd:
cd /home mkdir /tmp/foo tar zcf /tmp/foo/user.tar.gz user mkisofs /tmp/foo ...
Alternatively, there are options to mkisofs that will preserve permissions and ownership. I've not used these, but they're there. What I've done is create an ext2 file system in a file and put that on the CD. Make sure the image is a multiple of 2kbytes long.
jch
Christopher Russell wrote:
I am trying to copy /home/user from one RH9 machine to another RH9 machine, using a CDR; but the files and directories lose their permissions. How should this be done properly, please?
WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR: Made a user account on machine#2 in the same name as machine#1.
Using a CDR, and syntax from RH8 Bible by Negus, p471.
mkisofs -o /var/tmp/user.cd /home/user cdrecord -v speed=10 dev=0,0,0 -data /var/tmp/user.cd
WHAT HAPPENS: On copying the files and directories into the new /home/user directory, icons are labeled as user not having necessary permissions. e.g., /evolution has changed from 700 to 555, /stuff has changed from 755 to 555, and a .html file has changed from 664 to 555.
WHAT I THINK THE PROBLEM IS: A CD is an archive media, and so it's something in the way I made the CD
- but what should have been the way to do this, please?
Thanks in advance, Chris
