On 04/04/2011 08:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > 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. > > My goodness..... It is a vfat formated drive. It is being done with an entry in /etc/fstab. Hasn't anyone heard of "mount options"? Specifically, uid=value and gid=value :-) -- Schapiro's Explanation: The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure. èæå æåè / åååååèåæ
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