tar archiver and file mods

[everlast]

I have tons of files on my desktop computer (results of numerical simulations), and I need to make backup for later postprocessing and to free my disk so i can continue running simulations on that comp.

I tried "tar -cf archive.tar file1 file2" logged in as a common user within that same user's directory.

when i burned the archive.tar on a DVD, i tried to unpack it on my laptop (both computers are running SUSE linux - desktop 10.2 - 32bit, laptop 10.3 - 64bit).

it went ok, but when i tried editing some files, there was a warning that the files were all read-only.

i used "ls -l" on that directory and saw that the mod was read only. i can't chmod u+w on every file or directory because there are hudreds of them. what can i do? Thanx in advance. :)

[numberwhun]

I have tons of files on my desktop computer (results of numerical simulations), and I need to make backup for later postprocessing and to free my disk so i can continue running simulations on that comp.

I tried "tar -cf archive.tar file1 file2" logged in as a common user within that same user's directory.

when i burned the archive.tar on a DVD, i tried to unpack it on my laptop (both computers are running SUSE linux - desktop 10.2 - 32bit, laptop 10.3 - 64bit).

it went ok, but when i tried editing some files, there was a warning that the files were all read-only.

i used "ls -l" on that directory and saw that the mod was read only. i can't chmod u+w on every file or directory because there are hudreds of them. what can i do? Thanx in advance. :)

Well, you could do the following:

chmod -R u+w *

That will do it recursively.

Regards,

Jeff

[everlast]

Well, you could do the following:

chmod -R u+w *

That will do it recursively.

Regards,

Jeff

Thank You, tried it and it worked.