>>>>> "BW" == Bart Warmerdam <bartw@xs4all.nl> writes: BW> I had one hickup last evening. When copying cp -a dir1 dir2 BW> you get a: copying with rights preserved dir1/link.txt BW> dir2/link.txt folowed by a permission denied (for memory). Kernel version? cp -a is one of the victims of lchown/chown confusion... m.