Keep it on the list. On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Sonenberg wrote: > The current OS is Slackware 9.0 and the new OS will be Gentoo 2006.0. > The old AFS version is 1.2.13 and the new version will be 1.4.0. I'll > try using a tar command. Thanks for your help. For this discussion we'll say "linux". In any case, yes, try what I said. mode-perserving copy as root is critical. Derrick