problem with tar

I bought a new drive and I'm moving data from my old one to the new one using tar. The problem is that some files aren't having their permissions maintained. Most are but some aren't, specifically various files and directories in user's home directories. They are simply showing up as owned by root:root. This isn't a big deal since I can reset permissions on files that I find but I won't have an accurate list of what files did not maintain their permissions.

Another more major problem is that tar is ignoring the -l option. I havepub mounted as another drive and of coursemnt is mounted to the new drive. tar is decending in to both. pub isn't a big deal since I can unmount it but when it decends in tomnt, that cause recursive copying to the new drive.

The commands I've tried are:

tar -cvplf - * (cdmnt && tar -xpf - )

tar -clf - * (cdmnt && tar -xvpf - )

tar --create --same-permissions --preserve-permissions --one-file-system --file - * (cdmnt && tar xvpf - )

Is there an order to the options that I should be specifying? This has worked before in the past on other systems so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing something small. he version of tar I'm using is: tar (GNU tar) 1.13.93 from Debian (sarge).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron