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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