umask, ACL inheritance and setgid +s not working with copy from flash drive in nautilus

[Nils Kassube]

Andy Graybeal wrote:
> Why when I copy a file from a jump/flash drive, does it not inherit
> the ACL's properly?

> Is it because I copied it from a FAT file system?  My jump drive is
> probably FAT16.

While I'm not familiar with ACLs, I'm sure that FAT doesn't know 
anything about Linux permissions and therefore also not about ACLs.

If you want to preserve Linux permissions, use tar to make an archive 
which keeps the Linux permissions. OTOH, I'm not so sure if tar can 
handle ACLs.


Nils