Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Right it seems the issue I had with cp was to do with attributes > - it seems cp -a doesn't copy them correctly (even though the > -a is equivalent to -dpR, where p says "preserve file attributes > if possible"). This is GNU's cp, and IIRC it hasn't been extended with support for BFS' extended attributes. It probably means the standard attributes: created/modified timestamps, rwx permissions, .. You could use copyattr instead: copyattr --recursive --data /Jonas Sundström.