On 07/30/09 at 12:39pm, solsTiCe d'Hiver 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. man cp said: -a --archive same as -dR --preserve=all so shouldn't -a work just fine? (-p is --preserve btw) it worked fine for me when i migrated from 32 to 64 bit by reinstalling and restoring /home /etc -- patrick brisbin