Andrew Henry wrote: > Jisao, > > Have you tried it? If you do a test run on a few files, you will see > pretty quickly if it retains permissions or not. > > --andrew > > Yes, I tried cp -a and it waorked well. I dropped the -x, as I was not sure what it was doing. I now have a new home, and space in my "system" partition. Anita has been looking into the "-x" part. Jisao