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