Changing Owner on a backup drive

[Jim]

On 04/04/2011 10:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 08:24 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 07:20 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>> Fedora 14
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>>>> I have a backup drive at sdb1 a  Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive
>>>> that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner was
>>>> Michael , but after upgrade it is now owned by root. all the backup
>>>> files are Linux files.
>>>>
>>>> The drive is mounted at /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup from /etc/fstab  and is
>>>> only readable by Michael.
>>>>
>>>> How do I change the owner back to Michael , the chown command is not
>>>> permitted.
>>>>
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>>> Chown can't be done as root?
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>> the files are owned by whomever 'mounted' the drive. If root mounts the
>> drive, then the files are owned by root. If Michael mounts the drive,
>> then Michael is the owner.
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> My goodness.....
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> It is a vfat formated drive.  It is being done with an entry in /etc/fstab.
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> Hasn't anyone heard of "mount options"?   Specifically,  uid=value and
> gid=value   :-)
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Yes, JD has