On 04/03/2011 11:13 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Am 04.04.11 04:16, schrieb JD: >> 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. >> > Better reference the drive by /dev/disk/by-.... than with /dev/sdb1. Actually, the best thing to do is to use the uuid. But I did not want to add an extra burden on the OP. -- 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
