On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 07:20 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, 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. > > > > > > Chown can't be done as root? ---- the files are owned by whomever 'mounted' the drive. If root mounts the drive, then the files are owned by root. If Michael mounts the drive, then Michael is the owner. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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
