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Carlo
Carlo

Reputation: 4148

Copying folder from usb drive to mac changes permission to 777

I have different web projects that I need to move from one computer with Ubuntu to a Mac. I'm using cp -rp folder copy_folder to copy from the hard disk to an external usb drive. After this operation the permission are still correct, but when I insert the usb drive in the Mac the permissions appears to be just 777.

Is there anything I can do to keep the same permission in the Mac?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1559

Answers (1)

MCO System
MCO System

Reputation: 424

Most of USB drives are formatted with a FAT32 file system and FAT32 file system does not support Unix permissions. However, permissions can be set at mount time.

If you want to keep the permissions on your file while transferring it from Linux to Mac, use another file system that can be read by both systems and that support Unix permissions such as ext4 (You'll need something like OSXFuse to do it).

A better and simpler solution would be to use rsync if both computer are connected to the same network or even the Internet.

Upvotes: 3

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