On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:36 -0400, Jim wrote: > Why, when you Copy/Burn ~/user to a DVD it changes the "Permissions" > on the Files ? > I had to go into .thunderbird and change permissions to read/write on > all the files for "owner" , they where changed to read only for > owner. They change because the filing system used on DVDs doesn't have the ability to store the permissions that we use on ext3 (nor various other filing systems). Since it can't store them, you can't restore them when you take files from a disc, and simply presuming that they should be something doesn't work well, either. On the other hand, if you archive your files you're backing up using something that understands such things (e.g. tar.gz, I think), and put that archive on your backup disc, then you get the same permissions and ownership when you unpack that archive. For what it's worth, putting lots of little files on CDs or DVDs isn't particularly good. It's a medium with very poor seeking performance. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
