> I tried a simple 'cp -av' [...] and find that everything is set to > root / root if you want to preserve permission, you need to use -p too. Do you know that there exists something called the man pages (the manual pages) for each command on your system ? so if you run 'man cp', you get a list of all the options of cp and how it works. no offense, i am still reading them every day. i think at this point, you really need to read them carefully. otherwise at every new question you will ask you will get back a RTFM.
