The easiest way is going to be to use tar, and create an archive. That way, when untar'ing it, you should get all the ownerships and permissions back as they were.
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Tobias wrote: > Hi! > > How do I copy my 'home' dir the easiest way? When I try to copy it as root I > get some error msg of diffrent kinds. > All I wanna do is a backup of my personal files so I can make a clean install. > > Regards > Tobias > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
