[Wolves] Looking for some reassurance.

[Stuart Langridge]

> I have an external hard disk that I'm going to use to keep a copy of my old
> files and folders, because it's formatted as FAT32 I intend to create a
> tar.zip archive of my entire home directory.  This should capture all the .*
> files and contents and preserve them?

Ought to be OK. There's a "preserve permissions" option to tar that
you'll want to use, I believe.

sil

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