Solved: Changing Owner on a backup drive
On 04/03/2011 10:16 PM, JD wrote:
On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 14
>
> I have a backup drive at sdb1 a Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive
> that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner was
> Michael , but after upgrade it is now owned by root. all the backup
> files are Linux files.
>
> The drive is mounted at /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup from /etc/fstab and is
> only readable by Michael.
>
> How do I change the owner back to Michael , the chown command is not
> permitted.
>
>
Unmount the drive, then
Change your fstab as follows:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup vfat
uid=TheUIDyouWant,gid=TheGIDyouWant,user,rw,sync 0 0
The sync option is up to you. I use it because USB itself is not a very
reliable connection.
Remount the drive.
That solved the problem JD thanks much.