On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Claude Marinier wrote:

> Actually, what Phil suggests might work since he first creates mount
> points and mounts all the partitions. Will cp preserve the ownership
> and permissions?

Not with just the "-R" option (as shown in the other email). Also use the
"-p" option to preserve the modification time, etc.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Matthias Pretzer wrote:

> Will cp copy symlinks, fifos...?

It does copy symlinks.

The -p option by itself doesn't copy fifos, but with the "-R" it does copy
fifos.

 $ mkfifo test-fifo
 $ cp test-fifo test-fifo2
 ^C
 $ cp -p test-fifo test-fifo2
 ^C
 $ cp -pR test-fifo test-fifo2
 $ ls -l test-fifo*
 prw-r--r--  1 reed  wheel  0 Sep 26 09:39 test-fifo
 prw-r--r--  1 reed  wheel  0 Sep 26 09:39 test-fifo2

(This is cp from 1.5.1_BETA i386.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/