cpio -i preservation of ownership and permissions

From: Sandels, Mark (Mark.sandels@orh.nhs.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 10:00:21 EDT

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Hi List,
  I've found that a cpio -iBcdumv does not always preserve permissions and
owner/group ownership
of directories when the command is run as root. What happens in these cases
is that the
owner and group are set to "root" and "system" respectively.

Has anyone else any experience of this and is there a work-around?

Mark Sandels
Systems Developer
Oxon Acute Health Informatics Service (OAHIS)
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Tel: (01865) (2)22879
Email: mark.sandels@orh.nhs.uk
Mail: Room 121
            Manor House Annexe
            John Radcliffe Hospital
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