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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:01:26 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>
Subject:   Re: Migration planning - old system to new
Message-ID:  <201001250901.28338.oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <97F6366F-5364-4990-A794-047F3E5B2FB1@lafn.org>
References:  <20100122111219.A31898@starfire.mn.org> <20100124004211.B64294@starfire.mn.org> <97F6366F-5364-4990-A794-047F3E5B2FB1@lafn.org>

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Hi,

On 24 January 2010 pm 15:35:20 Doug Hardie wrote:
> On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote:
>
> I just tried it with FreeBSD 7.2 creating a tar file.  Digging
> through the file it shows the ascii names for owner and group -
> not uid/gid.  I un-tar'd it on a Mac and sure enough it used
> the names and the uids are quite different for the two
> systems._______________________________________________

what happens if you first create the user names on the target 
system and then open the archive?

It would be then very easy to move files accross systems. I never 
have had to do this.

Erich



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