Re: parted boot disk shell cp failure

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:59:51PM -0400, Ron wrote:
> I have the parted bootdisk 1.4.5.  I used the shell cp command to copy
> part of a partition to a new partition.  However, the cp command did not
> copy the owner & group numbers, but set them all to 0 on every file it
> copied!  Is this a bug or a feature of the shell that you're using in
> the parted bootdisk?

Which "cp" did you use?  The "cp" from within parted, like this:

        (parted) cp A B
                where A and B are partition numbers

to copy from partition A to partition B?

Or, the shell command:

        # cp -r / /somewhere-else

If you are talking about the first case... then it's a bug.  If the
later, then that's how cp(1) always works!  (And you've probably
got a bit confused, and should be using the first one...)

Andrew Clausen