on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following: > On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: >> on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following: >>> >>> So, here's the plan, please check me... >>> >>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD >> >> If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over >> ssh, add the option --numeric-ids > > Thanks, but no, like I said, I'll just boot that system to a LiveDVD and > do it from there...
Are you sure the user IDs of the LiveDVD are the same as the other system's users' IDs? That is why I recommend using the option --numeric-ids. And using it would not hurt anyway.