[CS-FSLUG] Copying files and permissions

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/12/2010 06:33 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Permissions I get, as well as chmod and the octals. What I don't get 
> is how I can copy large numbers of files and directories from a VFAT 
> jump drive or NTFS external harddrive without having to go back and 
> ding around with permissions.
>
> I have a nice 250GB external drive someone gave me, and I use it when 
> helping folks with computer problems. Recently, an owner asked me to 
> install Ubuntu on their machine. Pulled all the files off onto the 
> NTFS drive, installed Ubuntu, the copied them all back. With my 
> limited knowledge, I knew I'd either have to copy as is, and have 
> everything tagged with execute bits set, or copy with MC, turn off the 
> "keep attributes" and end up with 0600 on everything, including folders.
>
> Is there a way to set a permissions filter for the process so we get 
> sanity? Or is there some fancy incantation I can use with something 
> like chomd -R that I haven't found so far? Even using Nautlius, it 
> won't work on large collections of directories. At least, I couldn't 
> get it to operate on more than one folder at a time.
>

Ed, IF there's a way to do what you want, I'm not aware of it....not to 
say there isn't, just I haven't found it. My external drive is esata and 
USB. I found that it once the files are back on the hard drive, I have 
no choice with to use a file manager and clean up the permissions.

Fred

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