Thanks solsTiCe, no offense taken, but I am one of the people that RTFM. Plus, the -a option gives you -p anyways, so ownership, mode and timestamps are kept by default. This is just a weird coincidence that I can't explain. I've been able to copy a drive before, but never with this much difficulty. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:39 AM, solsTiCe d'Hiver<solstice.dhiver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > >
