On 04/03/2011 10:16 PM, JD wrote: > 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. > That solved the problem JD thanks much. -- 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
