Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!thompson From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: using restore on a DECstation 3100 Message-ID: <8973@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 18:33:15 GMT Reply-To: thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) Distribution: usa Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 13 I have noticed that when transferring an entire filesystem from one disk to another (to a new filesystem just created there) using the output of dump piped into restore, the directory files created on the output disk were all owned by root, although the files within each directory had proper ownerships. I used something like this: % dump 0f - /usr | (cd /newusr; restore xf -) I was logged in as root at the time. Does anyone know why the directory ownerships were not preserved correctly? I see nothing in the man pages that tells me why. Thanks, Steve