Desperate situation

[Mike McCarty]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 19:11, Robert F. Chapman wrote:
> 
>>When copying directories, make sure to use either -r or -a for
>>recursive/archive.
>>
> 
> I tried -a first, but got lots of 'can't do that' messages - presumably 
> because the pendrive is vfat and permissions are not set on vfat files.

You presume correctly. You *could* reformat the pendrive to
ext2 or sth the like, but that would lead to early wearout.
OTOH, you could do that temporarily, and then reformat
FAT.

Mike
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