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You can review our privacy policy for additional information. For many use cases this is fine, but if you make a backup of your system partition, missing -X might break quite a lot. As far as I know, cp -a really preserves all file attributes. Just tested this, while sudo cp -a preserves ownership and groups, sudo rsync -a changes them into root. So, Perseids is correct. JohnHamilton Under Mint, this works perfectly JohnHamilton that's not what Perseides said at all.
Show 1 more comment. Zaz Zaz 2, 15 15 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. PS: -R instead of -r is just habit from using ls -lR. StarNamer StarNamer 2, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. This worked great - thank you! Actually there is a difference between -r and -R. Check the man page even the particular part too long to be quoted here. I don't think there is although there may once have been and may still be on some versions of Unix.
See man7. Bruce Ediger Bruce Ediger Is there a difference between using tar and using cp -rp as other answers suggest? From the manual page of cp : -p Cause cp to preserve the following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions.
Matteo Matteo 9, 4 4 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges. Ario Ario 2 2 bronze badges. AdminBee Alex Alex 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. This answer seems to be exactly like the accepted answer save the for sudo call, which however the OP seemes to be necessary Also, you cannot preserve ownerships while copying unless you are root. Otherwise on systems with a per-user disk quota, it would allow an user to fill up other users' disk quota by making copies of their files, as a form of a local denial-of-service attack.
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Privacy policy. This article describes how Windows Explorer handles file and folder permissions in different situations. When you use NTFS, you can grant permissions to your folders and files to control access to those objects.
When you copy or move a file or folder on an NTFS volume, how Windows Explorer handles the permissions on the object varies, depending on whether the object is copied or moved within the same NTFS volume or to a different volume.
By default, an object inherits permissions from its parent object, either at the time of creation or when it is copied or moved to its parent folder. The only exception to this rule occurs when you move an object to a different folder on the same volume. In this case, the original permissions are retained.
If NTFS permissions conflict, for example, if group and user permissions are contradictory, the most liberal permissions take precedence. To preserve permissions when files and folders are copied or moved, use the Xcopy.
To add an object's original permissions to inheritable permissions when you copy or move an object, use the Xcopy.
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