On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, james tate <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and > files in tom to owner:tom . > > The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not > changing the directories and files to owner, tom . > > Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the > directories and files in > directory tom . Who is the current owner? Are you running chown as root? If you move stuff around from different machines or even do an clean install + separate (existing) home volume and the uid's and gid's don't match, strange things can happen. Richard -- 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
