A question to rsync....

DB Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 29 13:13:50 UTC 2010


On 01/29/2010 02:57 AM, users-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: A question to rsync....
> From:
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
> Date:
> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +1100
>
> To:
> Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB<Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk>  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 <cs at zip.com.au> 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
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