Subj : Re: Copy files without changing ownership and permissions
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat
From : Randy McLaughlin
Date : Wed Nov 17 2004 11:10 am

"Ross" <Ross@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:7ZudnZHpg5nTHwbcRVn-uQ@magma.ca...
> Hi there,
> My Linux file server has an ext3 partition for user's home directories. I
> have just added a new and big ext3 partition.
> I (root) would like to copy (cp) all users' files to the new partition.
But
> any files copied to the partition will change their ownership to root, and
> permission to 755.
> How can I keep their ownership and permissions?
> Thanks in advance,
> Ross

Have you tried cp -prv ... ...?  Allways try cp --help it explains a lot.

Everytime I've needed to copy the home directory I've used tar and saved the
tar file as a backup.


Randy

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