Re: cp -ar question

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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

You need to be root to read stuff in /home that's not yours.


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