[NTLUG:Discuss] problem w/ copying to a floppy drive

[Steve]

mike wrote:

>I vote for msdos floppies too (if possible).. ext2fs on floppy retains 
>permissions.. I've run into having slightly different user id's on different 
>boxes (for security reasons) and not being able to get my file open on the 
>receiving box.
>
The trick to that is to 'tar' your files prior to putting them onto the 
msdos format
floppy.  Then, ownerships, group ownerships, long filenames, mixed-case 
file names,
links and permissions are *all* retained inside the tarball and 
reconstructed when they
are retrieved.  Most versions of tar let you ignore ownerships and links 
if that's what
you prefer.