A blog by Devendra Tewari
I needed to tar a folder and set all files and folders to owner/group 0/0. After a few man page perusals and internet searches, this is what worked
tar cvjf system.tar.bz2 --numeric-owner --owner=root --group=root ./system
Here’s what tar tvjf system.tar.bz2 lists
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2013-07-30 15:53 ./system/
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2013-07-30 15:57 ./system/app/
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 29081 2013-07-30 15:53 ./system/app/ApplicationsProvider.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 109577 2013-07-30 15:53 ./system/app/BackupRestoreConfirmation.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 31705 2013-07-30 15:53 ./system/app/BasicDreams.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 624562 2013-07-30 15:54 ./system/app/Bluetooth.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 2852568 2013-07-30 15:57 ./system/app/Browser.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 970646 2013-07-30 15:56 ./system/app/Calculator.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1786627 2013-07-30 15:56 ./system/app/Calendar.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 771929 2013-07-30 15:54 ./system/app/CalendarProvider.apk
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 137476 2013-07-30 15:53 ./system/app/CertInstaller.apk
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