Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d
On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on
>> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t
>> have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the
>> ownership had reverted to root:root, so I rebooted.
>
> Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive.
!532
sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX
bash: sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459: No such file or directory
ls -l /media shows
drwxr-xr-x 183 root root 12288 Dec 22 07:00 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459
Sharon.
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