[Scottish] cp command question / supermount

[Andy McKay]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:57 +0100, magnus lawrie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to copy files from /cdrom (root) to /home (user).
> 
> I am just getting messed up with it. Can anyone tell me how to copy my files
> and change owner, not just locked and empty folders (why is it doing that?)
> 
well why dont you do
sudo cp -r /cdrom/* /home/
chown -R user /home/*

or am i missing something here?
> Any advice on using supermount with ubuntu. I want to automount /cdrom.
> 
> And btw has anyone been following the newbie discussion on edlug?
> 
Andy Mckay
AKA Lonewolff