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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0612052242120.18570@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:43:03 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@...u.edu> cc: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>, Marty Leisner <linux@...hester.rr.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bug-cpio@....org, martin.leisner@...ox.com Subject: Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd On Dec 5 2006 14:58, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > > ...It also let's you mknod and friends, and let's you set permissions to files > to more than just ONE user. The whole point of the commands is to let you make > distribution files without root access. Of course you can fake all of this > with a special archiver command.... I'm just throwing out options. Ah. Thanks for explaining! Looks like it eats big amounts of memory when there are a lot of files in the faekroot. > > $ fakeroot > # mkdir root > # mkdir root/dev/ > # mknod root/dev/null c 1 3 > # mknod root/dev/sda1 b 8 1 > # chown root.disk root/dev/sda1 > # cd root > # tar cvf ../root.tar ./ > # exit > $ tar tvf root.tar > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-12-05 14:54 ./ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/ > crw-r--r-- root/root 1,3 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/null > brw-r--r-- root/disk 8,1 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/sda1 > > -- > Jeffrey Hundstad > > > -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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