On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:07 +0000, Bryan Hepworth wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I'm trying to copy the /home directory to an external usb drive but the file > permissions don't work so wondered if I was missing something. I'm doing:- > > cp -ar /home /media/usbdisk/ > > the /home is 27gb ---- if /media/usbdisk is some foreign type of file system (i.e. vfat), permissions aren't supported. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
