On 04/04/2011 07:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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 :-) Which essentially was my reply to 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
