cp -ar question

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:07 +0000, Bryan Hepworth wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I'm trying to copy the /home directory to an external usb drive but the file 
> permissions don't work so wondered if I was missing something. I'm doing:-
> 
> cp -ar /home /media/usbdisk/
> 
> the /home is 27gb
----
if /media/usbdisk is some foreign type of file system (i.e. vfat),
permissions aren't supported.

Craig


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