On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:57AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 22/12/11 11:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >As the drive is owned by root should it be run as sudo? > > Yes, or as root (su -c 'chown blah blah'). What's the point of running "su" as root? Your example will only change user "blah" permissions for "blah" file/directory. Example above is better as it changes the permissions recursively and group ones as well. Regards, -- Raf