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.

On 04/04/2011 11:20 PM, JD wrote: > Which essentially was my reply to the OP. What, you expect "me" to read "every" reply... :-) Sorry I missed it.

Which essentially was my reply to the OP.

On 04/04/2011 08:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 07:20 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, 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. >>> >>> >> Chown can't be done as root? > ---- > the files are owned by whomever 'mounted' the drive. If root mounts the > drive, then the files are owned by root. If Michael mounts the drive, > then Michael is the owner. > > My goodness..... It is a vfat formated drive. It is being done with an entry in /etc/fstab. Hasn't anyone heard of "mount options"? Specifically, uid=value and gid=value :-)

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, 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. > > Chown can't be done as root?

On 04/03/2011 11:13 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Am 04.04.11 04:16, schrieb JD: >> 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. >> > Better reference the drive by /dev/disk/by-.... than with /dev/sdb1. Actually, the best thing to do is to use the uuid. But I did not want to add an extra burden on the OP.