copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Tim Henderson]

>>
>               I think if you use cp -ar the a gets you all the links in
> files. Look at man cp and be sure.
>
>
> 73 Karl
>
>

If you use the cp command (I would not recommend, rsync all the way), 
you should use the -p flag to preserve permissions.

Tim H.