Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Rich Puhek
Tom Badran wrote: On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files with odd permissions, tar it, u

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:43:46 +0200 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and > > it works. If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file > > ownerships to user.user instead of owner.group > > Yes. see 'man tar'.

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 22 August 2003 14:46, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > > > Those should be retained by default. Make a direc

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files > with odd permissions, tar it, untar

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Johann Koenig
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:29:23 +0100 Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 22 Aug 2003 11:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..the good old way is tarball your data, 'mkfs.xfs $dev' or > > somesuch, and thenafter drop in your tarballed data. > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i don

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 11:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good old way is tarball your data, 'mkfs.xfs $dev' or > somesuch, and thenafter drop in your tarballed data. Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. To

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:04:13 +0100, Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to convert my disks to use the XFS filesystem (im writing > software at work that uses features only xfs provides). They are > currently ext3 (two large partitions with decent

Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
I would like to convert my disks to use the XFS filesystem (im writing software at work that uses features only xfs provides). They are currently ext3 (two large partitions with decent amount of free space). How can i back up a partitions data so that i dont lose file permissions etc, so that i