Translations:Handbook:Parts/Installation/Stage/38/en

Make sure that the same options ( and  ) are used. The  stands for extract, the   for preserve permissions and the   to denote that we want to extract a file (not standard input). is to include preservation of the the extended attributes in all namespaces stored in the archive. Finally,  is used to ensure that the user and group IDs of the files being extracted from the tarball will remain the same as Gentoo's release engineering team intended (even if adventurous users are not using official Gentoo installation media).