Package: general Severity: serious Justification: ?.?.? Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I installed a new bigger drive (array of 4 disks in raid5) and installed Debian 7.5 on this new drive. Then I wanted to copy files from the old drives that had been running under Debian 6.0 to the new drive without compromizing new configuration files that may be around in the new home directories. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Therefore, as root, I issued the command "cp -anr <source-homedir> <target- homedir>" * What was the outcome of this action? All files were copied but the file attributes of the source-files were not kept, all copied files belong now to root and permission-flags were reset to the defaults of the root user. * What outcome did you expect instead? I exspected that file attributes of the source-files are kept, notably user,group and permission-flags as describet in the man-page for cp option -a. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140602093542.32001.60993.report...@kurt.lewi.fr
