What's the problem changing back the permitions? Best, Jozsef -- "Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters." Revelation 14:7 On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Will Siddall <will.siddall@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Roman, > I did try the tar method with the same results. The only method I > could see working would be the dd, but even looking at the mounted iso > afterwards, permissions were not set. I should be seeing at least > ownership by my username, or 'user #1000' but after copying (and yes, > with 'cp -a') it still returns root. > > Will > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Roman Kyrylych<roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 22:20, Will Siddall<will.siddall@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, > >> After several attempts, I'm still back to trying to resolve this. To > >> explain in more detail, I had a 100G hd with a root partition (with my > >> Arch Install), a data partition and a swap. I managed to run dd on > >> both partitions and in the new hd (200G) apply both. But that only > >> worked partially due to the fact that it copied the ratios of file > >> sizes rather than the actual file size... Copying 80G of data from a > >> 30G partition doesn't quite sit well with me. > >> Next step was to mount the iso images and copy the files. That's what > >> I was in the process of doing of my last message and it worked... > >> until I went to restart and update. What I found that was that my > >> permissions and ownership info was not kept. Because of this, as soon > >> as I went to update anything, the installers would run, but just > >> delete the files (it deleted pacman and yaourt so I had to find a way > >> to compile pacman to install again... until it tried to update all of > >> my bin tools... then everything was gone). > >> Now following all of your suggestions, I tried rsync -arpol and a > >> variety of different other settings but it still doesn't keep the > >> permissions. I tried running tar on the partition, still not working. > >> > >> Does anyone have any other suggestions or know why I'm having this > >> problem? I'm going to try to wipe out the new hard drive and run dd > >> on the whole 100g disk and reapply it to the 200G disk. And by the > >> way, I'm running a ubuntu livecd to run these processes. > > > > Did you try the tar method? > > Also, when you copy files, did you use cp -a? > > You can also try partimage which makes copies of partitions. > > Doing full byte-to-byte copy of HDD and then doing partition/fs resize > > or creating an additional partition in empty space is my preferred > method. > > > > -- > > Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) > > >
