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[jdow]

From: "Bryan Hepworth" <bryan at redfedora.co.uk>

> Hi Everyone
> 
> I'm trying to back up /home to an external hard drive (maxtor usb) and 
> wanted to keep the file permissions but when I do a
> 
> cp -ar /home /media/usb it complains about not being able to do the 
> permissions and they all go across as root instead.
> 
> Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

Copying from a Linux machine to a FAT filesystem?
{^_^}