[CS-FSLUG] Copying files and permissions

[David McGlone]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 19:22 -0400, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> I believe, though can't dbl chk right now, that you can tar.gz up
> files with the right arguments to save permissions.
> 

I can confirm this. I work with a FAT32 partition every day and I've had
to zip or tar my files in order to keep the permissions intact when the
files are moved to the FAT partition otherwise the permissions get all
messed up when I move the files back to my ext3 partition.