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Subject: Re: tar ownerships?
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> well, u need to specify the '-p' flag to preserver the ownership and
> permisison, imho.
> 
> /ayn
> 

Do you mean such as:

tar cvfzp home.tgz /home/*  ??

I tried this, then extracted it onto a different FBSD machine running
2.1.6. Didnt work. If I extracted it onto the same machine that created
the archive, it works. But it does that withoug the -p option of tar.