Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive
On 22 December 2011 13:03, Scott Ferguson
<prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/12/11 23:34, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> On 22 December 2011 11:11, Scott Ferguson
>> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 22/12/11 21:35, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>> On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson
>>>> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>>>> On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson
>>>>>> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
> <snipped>
>
>>> Is that the same directory you gave to boztu earlier. eg.:-
>>> $ sudo chown -R boztu:boztu /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/
>>
>> yes
>
> Now I'm puzzled. Line 3 of the your pastebin post of the output from the
> ls shows ownership by root of a file *prior* to a recursive chown for boztu.
>
> Maybe that'll make sense when I've had some sleep before that makes
> sense.... I'm also unfamiliar with gnome automount (or it's vfs) and a
> quick guess says your system if mounting that drive as root (and I don't
> know where to change that).
>
> Still doesn't explain root's ownership of file that predates a time when
> boztu should have owned everything on that drive.
>
> I've got a feeling I'm missing something obvious here...
> Are you boztu?
yes
> Does only boztu and root write to that disk?
yes
> Are they the only users that read that disk?
yes
> Is that how it's always been (with that disk)?
yes
>
> Please try:-
> $ sudo chown -R boztu:boztu /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/
http://paste.debian.net/149944/
>
> Post any errors and the output of:-
> $ mount | grep 8eef3b99
mount | grep 8eef3b99
/dev/sdb1 on /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 type ext3
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
>>>
>>> If you that ^ is what you did - please post the output of:-
>>> $ ls -alL /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/
>>
>> http://paste.debian.net/149929/
>
>
> Thank you.
> <snipped>
>
> If I don't see a [SOLVED] post in the morning I'll get back to it then.
>
Thanks
Sharon.
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