Re: cpio question

["Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" <argathin iname com>]

Ramon Gandia writes:
> I am copying one partition to another using cpio, but empty
> directory trees are not being copied; also, if I use the
> -d option (create leading directories when needed), I get
> permissions of 700 ( drwx------ )

Ramon,

if you don't *need* tu use cpio, you could use tar for that. IIRC, the Tips
and Tricks HOWTO (sp?) contains a working syntax for that.

Thomas
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