[Wylug-help] cp backup problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 18 17:22:15 BST 2007


On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> gpgkeys: key 66C96798DA1F9EB8 not found on keyserver
>
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > There must be a way around this.  Is it possible to suppress these Beagle
> > attributes while copying?  Surely there must be.
>
> cp has a couple of handy options (from TFM). Unfortunately it doesn't
> list the allowed attribute arguments
>
> --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
>       preserve   the   specified   attributes   (default: mode,owner‐
>       ship,timestamps), if possible additional attributes: links, all
>
> --no-preserve=ATTR_LIST
>       don’t preserve the specified attributes
>
> You can also mount without extra attributes, with the option nouser_xattr

Thanks, Stephen.  Filed away for future use.

Anne
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