From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PXVOG-0003CO-1I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:58:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9D76E063C; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5204E063C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0694C1B40AD for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:56:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.209 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.209 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.390, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aqt8z2prshcR for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902C21B4062 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXVMH-0002eE-Om for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:56:41 +0100 Received: from dslb-088-070-022-112.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.70.22.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:56:41 +0100 Received: from marc.blumentritt by dslb-088-070-022-112.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:56:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Marc Blumentritt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:56:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <201012271537.oBRFbUGO027939@dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net> <20101227163710.7071eae2@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-088-070-022-112.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 79cf513c-4915-4a52-b814-7484005342bc X-Archives-Hash: 862d04fc45e5c71359c1659d893b7352 Am 27.12.2010 22:23, schrieb Remy Blank: > Marc Blumentritt wrote: >> Have a look at ownership an permissions of virtualbox! > > rsync sets the mtime and permissions of directories *after* recursing > into them. So if you interrupted the process while it was copying the > contents of virtualbox, the permissions of that directory haven't been > set yet. Ah, OK. Didn't know this. Do you know, why it does work like this? And does cp -a work in the same way? Regards, Marc