18 Aug
2013
18 Aug
'13
15:09
On 2013-08-18 12:29, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stefan Seyfried <> wrote:
Am 18.08.2013 08:18, schrieb Felix Miata:
In 13.1M4, I did
tar -cvf /mnt/usb/stuff.tar file1.ts file2.ts file3.ts
On /mnt/usb was a NTFS formatted USB stick. The object of tarring was to preserve all native file attributes while transversing the foreign
What do you understand by "native file attributes"?
He is saving files with Linux attributes into an NTFS filesystem that does not understand them. Thus, he uses tar to encapsulate the files so that they are preserved, as the final destination is another Linux filesystem. This is a common trick. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)