[PLUG] Moving in to the new partitions

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:13, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
> Thanks to everyone!  I managed to get my hands on parted and a bootdisk 
> and now have new partitions waiting to become /tmp, /var, /usr, and 
> /home.  I am now looking at how to copy all the files in the current 
> /var, /usr, and /home to their new partitions.  I tried cp, but that 
> destroys all the permissions and ownerships.  I can restore these by 
> hand, but is there a better tool?
> 
> Evan

Did you use 

cp -pR something somewhere 
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Marvin J. Kosmal
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