I have a system with 2 HDD's, namely a 20Gb and a 7.5Gb HDD. What I would like to do is copy an exact replica of /home and /etc and all of their contents from the 20Gb to the 7.5Gb. What I have tried so far is to do it via Konqueror ie right click on /home, left click on copy, left click on /data4(this is the other drive), right click, left click paste. The system seems to copy all the files but I have noticed that the directory count on what files have been read and what files have been written is different. I thought this was just a quirk of the X session not being updated quick enough or that the complete replica had actually failed. Not liking the 'replica failed' idea, I decided to rather try the copy process from the command line (cli). I used the command #:cp -R -v /home /data4/home The system went crazy for a few minutes whilst it copied 1Gb of data and all seemed to work. I have now decided NOT to use the -v switch but would like to know if there is some way I could get a progress indicator/bar in the cli? Are there any other switches which could be added to further enhance the cp? How about using the --b switch? What about the file permissions, as I see there are 6 files owned by root in my /home ie /lost+found? I would like to copy the /home directory across with a normal user but I am worried about the root owned files in the directory. For the /etc directory I know I am going to have to use root as although the files are marked as read there is no write permission. How can I get the ownership to NOT change if I do copy the /home with root? ie ownership changes ie the original user hylton is changed to root? -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================