[kwlug-disc] Presentation: replacing a laptop's hard disk

[B.S.]

Right, but his question was not why 'cpio -a' but how does 'cp -a' not take you to the same place?

(Per man cp "preserve  the  specified  attributes (default: mode,ownership,timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context, links, xattr, all")

----- Original Message -----
> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Presentation: replacing a laptop's hard disk
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:54 PM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>  Also, cpio -a resets
>> 
>>  He said cp, not cpio.
> 
> I know.
> 
> What I am saying is that with cpio and its -a option, you leave the
> file system is the state it was in (access times not update).