chown ??

[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"

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