On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:07:56PM +0000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > The /dev/hda1 files were copied over with: > cp -xa * /mnt with /dev/hdd2 on /mnt ^ Two things I don't like about that: globbing and cp itself. I moved / with a tar pipe.
"cd /mnt" "tar lO / | tar cvvf -" > Any suggestions as to potential causal factors? > Mabey cp wasn't able to preserve permissions? Brent