On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 03:16, John Summerfied wrote: > cp never seems to do what I want, so I'd > sudo -s > tar clC / usr | tar xpC /mnt/mountpoint On systems that have the GNU version of cp (all linux distros, I think), 'cp -a' will do what you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
