The hd is ext3, the bigdrive is ntfs On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jan de Groot<jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:23 -0300, Will Siddall wrote: >> Just so everyone knows what I'm doing, here is what I'm doing: >> $ls -al ~ | tail -n 5 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername users 222118 2008-11-28 10:23 >> untitled.JPG >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername users 172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3 >> drwxr-xr-x 4 myusername users 4096 2008-10-05 22:41 workspace >> -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername users 1041452 2008-11-18 21:29 >> xine-out.wav >> -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername users 0 2009-07-21 21:18 zero.trf >> >> $cp -a --preserve=all ~ /media/bigdrive/backups/ >> $ls -al /media/bigdrive/backups | tail -n 5 >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 222118 2008-11-28 10:23 untitled.JPG >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3 >> drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 2008-10-05 22:41 workspace >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1041452 2008-11-18 21:29 xine-out.wav >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-07-21 21:18 zero.trf >> >> I've been using this stuff enough to know what's in the man pages and >> how to use google. No matter what though, the output is the same >> whether I'm running it from within my Arch install or from a live cd >> like ubuntu. > > What filesystem is the destination? You're aware of the fact that FAT32 > doesn't support permissions and ownership? > >
