2008/6/2 Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Gus Wirth wrote:
>>
>> Marieke Thayer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Can any of you tell me how to preserve the date on the new copy of a file
>>> when you use the cp command in bash?
>>>
>>> Kubuntu 8.04
>>>
>>> I tried
>>>
>>> cp -p tmp.txt tmp2.txt
>>> cp -a tmp.txt tmp2.txt
>>> cp --preserve=timestamps tmp.txt tmp2.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried cutting and pasting from the man page the --preserve= equivalent
>>> of cp -p; cp --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
>>>
>>> I am at wits end. Do I have something set up wrong in my system?
>>
>> What is the originating filesystem (ext3, fat32, etc)? What is the
>> destination filesystem (ext3, fat32, etc)? Some filesystems don't have the
>> ability to store a date or there is something else that blocks it.
>>
>> Use the output of mount to tell what filesystems you are using.
>>
>> Gus
>>
> When I say 'cp -ip file1 file2', I get slightly different results on
> different file systems. From ext3 to ext3, the date was not preserved. From
> vfat to vfat I got "cp: preserving times for 'file2': operation not
> permitted" before it didn't preserve the date.
I think maybe you are learning some of the limitations of vfat file systems.
Please show a complete example of how you do cp from ext3 to ext3 and
the date is not preserved. Including any alias you may be using.
carl
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