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
<http://acl.bestbits.at/download.html#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.
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=68347>
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
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