cpio command and schg flags
Fbsd8
fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com
Tue Sep 6 23:58:45 UTC 2011
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>> I am trying to use this code sequence to clone a directory tree.
>> mkdir /usr/test1
>> cd /var
>> find . | cpio -dmp /usr/test1
>>
>> The result is /usr/test1 gets populated with the directory tree but
>> all the schg flags get stripped off.
>>
>> How can I keep the schg flags in the cloned directory?
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> Did you copy under root? BSD cpio unlike GNU cpio does preserve file flags.
>
> $ cpio --version
> bsdcpio 2.8.4 -- libarchive 2.8.4
>
> $ find /lib | sudo cpio -dmp test
> 56525 blocks
>
> $ ls -lo test/lib | awk '$5 != "-"'
> total 15595
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel schg 4440677 Sep 5 22:24 libc.so.7
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel schg 131655 Sep 5 22:24 libcrypt.so.5
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel schg 592241 Sep 5 22:24 libthr.so.3
>
I am running release 8.2 and
$ cpio --version returns
bsdcpio 2.7.0 -- libarchive 2.7.0
This version seems not to copy the schg flag
maybe cpio got upgraded in release 9.0 which you must be running.
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