leam@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 2. As root, cp -Rp things over. Best to have as little activity as >> possible. That is, not running X, not getting e-mail. Mike McCarty wrote: > Umm, this is not adequate. It does not preserve ownership, > group membership, etc. The man page gives, perhaps, > > --preserve=all > > But it's ambiguous. I'd rather make a tarball and be sure. You're doing a copy, not a move, so you can test what --preserve=all actually does without doing any harm. You can also do things explicitly, saying that you want to preserve modes, timestamps, ownership, etc. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
