have you tried cp -pr. The 'p' option keeps the permissions, owner etc. Thanks! amar On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 07:33 +0000, Bryan Hepworth wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I'm trying to back up /home to an external hard drive (maxtor usb) and > wanted to keep the file permissions but when I do a > > cp -ar /home /media/usb it complains about not being able to do the > permissions and they all go across as root instead. > > Anyone know where I'm going wrong? > > Thanks > > Bryan > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
