cp -ar question

[John Summerfied]

Bryan Hepworth wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I'm trying to copy the /home directory to an external usb drive but the 
> file permissions don't work so wondered if I was missing something. I'm 
> doing:-
> 
> cp -ar /home /media/usbdisk/
> 
> the /home is 27gb

You need to be root to read stuff in /home that's not yours.


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