On 04/04/2011 08:35 AM, JD wrote: > 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. > I suggest use the " label " it is easy and works very nicely -- 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
