Mark Lanctot;201452 Wrote: > I simply used cp -r * to my newly formatted drive.
This should work, but I think you need -p if you want to preserve timestamps, permissions and ownership. Did you do this as root, or some other user? > However my File Browser window gave a rather alarming description - > -some of the contents could not be read-. Not sure what that means. What file browser is this? Could be ownership or permission related. > rsync -t -r [source] [dest] Again, you might want to try -a which will preserve timestamps, ownership, etc. In any case, there's not much damage you can do unless you accidentally mix up [source] and [dest] -- Fletch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35211 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
