Copying the file broken?

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi, ALL,
Have a weird question.

Since my laptop doesn't have a network right now, I tried to pull my code in one of my other laptops (KDE and wired interface)

So I execute "git pull" and brought the updated code in.

Then I attached mu USB external hard drive, mounted it and copy the code as root over to that drive.

I then verified that the code is there, by unmounting the drive and mounting it again.

Then I unmounted the drive and attached the drive to the laptop in question.

Again drive was mounted and the files were copied.

However, when I tried to do the "ls -la" the files were not changed and the user/group on them were still showing as a regular user and not root.

The KDE laptop is very old and was not updated for a while.

Does anyone experienced that before?

Also - I hope this is the right forum for that kind of stuff...

Thank you.