Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!
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>> 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...
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>> 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)
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>> 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)
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>> 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
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