Re: A question to rsync....

[DB]

On 01/29/2010 02:57 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: A question to rsync....
> From:
> Cameron Simpson 
> Date:
> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +1100
>
> To:
> Community support for Fedora users
>
> On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB  wrote:
> | If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if
> | I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner&
> | group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:
>
> What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
> it does not support user and group information.
> -- Cameron Simpson  DoD#743 
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

Thanks, Cameron, it was an NTFS partition.  It is now an ext3 & 
permissions etc are "as expected"!

Dave

A question to rsync....

[Cameron Simpson]

| >On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB  wrote:
| >| If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if
| >| I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner&
| >| group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:
| >
| >What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
| >it does not support user and group information.
|
| Thanks, Cameron, it was an NTFS partition.  It is now an ext3 &
| permissions etc are "as expected"!

Glad to hear it. Cheers,