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From: Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:58:44
Message-Id: ifc8nu$7t2$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? by Remy Blank
1 Am 27.12.2010 22:23, schrieb Remy Blank:
2 > Marc Blumentritt wrote:
3 >> Have a look at ownership an permissions of virtualbox!
4 >
5 > rsync sets the mtime and permissions of directories *after* recursing
6 > into them. So if you interrupted the process while it was copying the
7 > contents of virtualbox, the permissions of that directory haven't been
8 > set yet.
9
10 Ah, OK. Didn't know this. Do you know, why it does work like this?
11
12 And does cp -a work in the same way?
13
14 Regards,
15 Marc

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[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com>