Pete Biggs wrote: >> The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to >> the new filesystem. > Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem and the > backup system decided everything had changed because the attributes had > changed. I've settled on using "rsync -avHAX ..." and that seems to > keep everything preserved. The most important question here is obvious: have you lost your data? -- Dimitri Zelenkin Devexperts, Inc