On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM, Jim wrote: > Fedora 14 > > 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. > > Unmount the drive, then Change your fstab as follows: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup vfat uid=TheUIDyouWant,gid=TheGIDyouWant,user,rw,sync 0 0 The sync option is up to you. I use it because USB itself is not a very reliable connection. Remount the drive. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
