[NCSA-discuss] preserving vfat attributes with unix 'cp -p', 'tar -p'

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

additional data: mounting the vfat filesystem under samba 
gives the same results

Joe

> I have some windows files that I'd like to backup onto a unix machine (say 
> into another vfat partition). In windows I made a set of 4 test files, using 
> attrib, with each file having one + attribute (+h, +s, +a, +r) and the other 
> attributes -ve (checked with Explorer). I then mounted the directory under 
> linux and copied the files to a new directory or tar'ed them up and then 
> untarred them in a new directory. I then remounted the directories under 
> windows and checked the attributes of the copies with Explorer, to see that 
> the attributes were junk.
>
> Is there any way of using unix to copy windows files and preserve all 
> attributes?
>
> Thanks Joe
>
>

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