chown ??

[Mickey]

On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and 
files in tom to owner:tom .

The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not 
changing the directories and files to owner, tom .

Command chown  -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the 
directories and files in
directory tom .

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Jun2011 14:25, james tate <binarynut(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:
| On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and 
| files in tom to owner:tom .
| 
| The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not 
| changing the directories and files to owner, tom .
| 
| Command chown  -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the 
| directories and files in
| directory tom .

I notice that /mnt/home/tom isn't in /home. If /home/tom is a symlink
then you'll get what you describe.

  cd /home
  ls -ld tom

Is it a symlink?

If so, you need to go:

  cd /home/tom
  chown -R tom:tom .

or

  cd /home
  chown -R tom:tom tom/.

or some variantion of that form.

Note the "/." in the second example: that _enters_ the tom directory for
the chown.

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[Peter G.]

Tim wrote:

>  Backing up configuration files can be handy, too 
You bet. I keep a number of config files in my backup, since I spent a 
lot of time configuring them and like to restore that configuration in 
future editions of Fedora. Of course, I always compare to make sure that 
the new system still uses the old file format.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 17:23 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>  I should add that I do not back up the system. Since it can be easily
>
>  reinstalled from the disks or the net, that would be redundant. What
>  concerns me is backing up Documents, since that is my stuff. 
Backing up configuration files can be handy, too, if you modify anything
away from defaults.  Some people don't, so that's something else that
can be ignored from backups.


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[Peter G.]

Petrus de Calguarium wrote:

>  My solution:
>  
>  mount user stuff to /home/you/mountpoint.
>  
>  Eg. I mount my Documents partition and my Backup partition to
>  /home/me/Documents and /home/me/Backup. This way, I am the owner and I
>  don't have to ???? with changing the ownership of /mnt/stuff. 
I should add that I do not back up the system. Since it can be easily 
reinstalled from the disks or the net, that would be redundant. What concerns 
me is backing up Documents, since that is my stuff.

[Peter G.]

james tate wrote:

>  On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories
> and
>  files in tom to owner:tom .
>  
>  The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not
>  changing the directories and files to owner, tom .
>  
>  Command chown  -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the
>  directories and files in
>  directory tom . 
I kind of ran into that myself. /mnt is owned by root, so mounting user stuff 
to that is always problematic.

My solution:

mount user stuff to /home/you/mountpoint.

Eg. I mount my Documents partition and my Backup partition to 
/home/me/Documents and /home/me/Backup. This way, I am the owner and I don't 
have to ???? with changing the ownership of /mnt/stuff.

[Markku Kolkka]

james tate kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 29. 
kesäkuuta 2011):
>  On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all
>  directories and files in tom to owner:tom . 
What filesystem  is used on the backup drive? If it's FAT or NTFS 
then you can't use chown or chmod because Windows filesystems 
don't support Linux file permissions or ownership.

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 Markku Kolkka
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[Reindl Harald]

Am 29.06.2011 20:25, schrieb james tate:
>  On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories
> and 
>  files in tom to owner:tom .
>  
>  The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not 
>  changing the directories and files to owner, tom .
>  
>  Command chown  -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the 
>  directories and files in
>  directory tom . 
please provide some infomrations, nobody can help you if
nobody knows anything!

* which user does execute "chown"?
* outputs of "ls -lha"
* use "chown --preserve-root --changes --no-dereference -R"

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, james tate <binarynut(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:
>  On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories
> and
>  files in tom to owner:tom .
>
>  The drive is mounted but from /home the command  chown -R tom tom is not
>  changing the directories and files to owner, tom .
>
>  Command chown  -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the
>  directories and files in
>  directory tom . 
Who is the current owner? Are you running chown as root?

If you move stuff around from different machines or even do an clean
install + separate (existing) home volume and the uid's and gid's
don't match, strange things can happen.

Richard