On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, james tate <binarynut(a)comcast.net> wrote:
On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories
and
files in tom to owner:tom .
The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not
changing the directories and files to owner, tom .
Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the
directories and files in
directory tom .
Who is the current owner? Are you running chown as root?
If you move stuff around from different machines or even do an clean
install + separate (existing) home volume and the uid's and gid's
don't match, strange things can happen.
Richard