>> >> --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> Ok now I pulled a "Good One". >> My hard dirve "died" 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20 >> The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly >> larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be >> done with it... >> >> to my surprize the old drive worked again!. After the failure last night >> (system that had been up for a while had IRQ timeouts and failed to read th= >> e=20 >> drive..then it wouldn't boot again afterwards on cold boot) >> >> I tried to backup to tape, but it failed again. SO I rebooted again >> This time I did a cp -rf to the NEW drive...then I tape backuped from there >> (so I could repartition and restore the new drive) >> >> You may see my error...cp -rf by root...and EVERY FILE becomes owned BY ROO= >> T!
If you can make another attempt to copy, then you might want to use the -p option of cp. Meaning to preserve the files ownerships etc. --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]