On 17 Aug 2000, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, Please don't use HTML on this (or mostly any other) list, thanks.
> I know this is not the correct list... so please accept my > appology (is emergancy) Maybe -user would suit better. This is for packaging discussions, to my knowledge. > Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror > a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact Use tar with the options --preserve --same-owner (or --numeric-owner), -l if you want only a special partition. See the manual page for more information about it. HTH! Alfie -- Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you, "There's a time for work and a time for play," never find the time for play?
