Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from checker.wi1.bucksch.org (pD950D284.dip.t-dialin.net [217.80.210.132]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with SMTP id h2U2ELq9021452 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:15:03 -0800 Received: from beonex.com (packer.wi1.bucksch.org [192.168.2.1]) by checker.wi1.bucksch.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDFD1C81B; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E8652E5.5090307@beonex.com> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:13:57 +0200 From: Ben Bucksch Organization: Beonex User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021218 Beonex/0.8.1-stable X-Accept-Language: de, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Copy with extended attributes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-archive-position: 3436 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 902 Lines: 29 Thanks, Eric, for the fast answer. Eric Sandeen wrote: >There are versions of fileutils which include acl/attr support - >see http://acl.bestbits.at/ > I checked that out, but the description of star explicitly states that it doesn't support EAs, only ACLs, and quickly looking over the fileutils diff suggests the same for that package (cp, mv etc.). I merged the patch with the current Debian sources and built and ran cp, but the attributes were not copied. Did I overlook/misunderstand something? >Not sure about nautilus. > For now, I used getfattr -dR; cp -ax; setfattr --restore. Could you please add this question (and possible answers ;-) ) to the FAQ, because I'd think that everybody seriously using (or wanting to use) EA would stumble over this question? Thanks, Ben