Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive
On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing
> backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is
> 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership
> of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron backup program,
> but how do I do it please?
>
> At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new dated
> folder, because only root has write access to it. Then every three
> hours boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in the home folder,
> but I want user boztu to do =all= of it including creating the new
> dated folder.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Sharon.
Assuming you mount it somewhere beneath /media, and that SOLID (or
whatever) is set to mount the drive there everytime
# chown -R boztu:boztu /media/somewhere
Cheers
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