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| author | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> | 2019-12-02 01:01:43 +0100 |
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| committer | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> | 2019-12-02 01:26:54 +0100 |
| commit | 8f6cac0f6cf931eb08243447d48a71425e5ec3d4 (patch) | |
| tree | d6ba25314925d29ddd16c749d37e54915a73fe7e /doc/sqfs2tar.1 | |
| parent | e03804015733ae62706233e7b9d1bbb2ab7705f2 (diff) | |
Add a --root-becomes option to tar2sqfs and sqfs2tar
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/sqfs2tar.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sqfs2tar.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sqfs2tar.1 b/doc/sqfs2tar.1 index 7d91396..f42b266 100644 --- a/doc/sqfs2tar.1 +++ b/doc/sqfs2tar.1 @@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ archives. The resulting archive is written to stdout. .PP Possible options: .TP +\fB\-\-root\-becomes\fR, \fB\-r\fR <dir> +Prefix all paths in the tarball with the given directory name and add an +entry for this directory that receives all meta data (permissions, ownership, +extended attributes, et cetera) of the root inode. + +The special value \fB.\fR can be used since many tar archivers themselves pack +the attributes of the root directory that way and naturally support this. + +If this option is not used, all meta data from the root inode IS LOST! +.TP \fB\-\-subdir\fR, \fB\-d\fR <dir> Unpack the given sub directory instead of the filesystem root. Can be specified more than once to select multiple directories. If only one is specified, it |