On Friday 10 February 2006 21:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 10 February 2006 19:11, Robert F. Chapman wrote: > >>When copying directories, make sure to use either -r or -a for > >>recursive/archive. > > > > I tried -a first, but got lots of 'can't do that' messages - presumably > > because the pendrive is vfat and permissions are not set on vfat files. > > You presume correctly. You *could* reformat the pendrive to > ext2 or sth the like, but that would lead to early wearout. > OTOH, you could do that temporarily, and then reformat > FAT. > The files I need all go under my own /home, so it's no big deal to re-set permissions. I'll not worry about it too much. Anne
