[Wylug-help] cp backup problem

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, Shaun Laughey wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a hard drive partition.
>>>
>>>> Perhaps you have got a security limit set in the fstab (/etc/fstab).
>>>
>>> /dev/hda7 /Data ext3 defaults 1 2
>>>
>>> I did wonder about the 't' flag, but I own the files to move, the
>>> directory to move them to, and the relevant files in the destination, and
>>> I'm running the script as me, so it shouldn't have been a problem, I
>>> think.  OTOH, I can't remember where I got the info about this, so I
>>> can't check it.
>>
>> Ahh you could probably have extended attributes enabled on your home
>> drive and not on /Data.
>>
>> http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Application/attr
>> http://beagle-project.org/Enabling_Extended_Attributes
>>
>> Most likely beagle is using it as per above.
>>
> I guess that's it:
>
> attr -l /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Attribute "Beagle.Uid" has a 22 byte value
> for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Attribute "Beagle.MTime" has a 14 byte value
> for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Attribute "Beagle.AttrTime" has a 14 byte value
> for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
> Attribute "Beagle.Fingerprint" has a 25 byte value
> for /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
>
> There must be a way around this.  Is it possible to suppress these Beagle
> attributes while copying?  Surely there must be.

I don't think you want a way round.  It was just warning you that it was
throwing away the xattrs.  It still copied, right?

jh

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