Sounds like you want cp -dpr, info cp gives you more details.

cheers

JH

on the 19/03/03 12:28, Christopher Joseph wrote:
First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly.

The problem:

I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions to fill the original disk.

I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered /etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot.

BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of things have errored


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