chown ??

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, james tate <binarynut at comcast.net> 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