Re: problem ... experimenting

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Wednesday, Feb 16, 2005, at 11:52 US/Central, bntly_rhds wrote:
> hey i was experimenting with my HOME folder, i made a backup first, 
> and the experiment didn't work.  long story short, somehow, my usb 
> drive thinks that ROOT owns all the files.  they originally belonged 
> to me. root moved them and i didn't.  how do i put them back to me?  
> i'm trying  the following:
>
> chown -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
> chgrp -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
> chmod -R u+rwx,g+rw-x,o+r-wx
>
> it says (with -Rv) that i'm not allowed (even as root) to change the 
> user ID or group ID of the folders, and or files.

What filesystem is on your USB drive?  vfat, fat32, other?  My guess 
would be that the USB has a vfat filesytem and that root is mounting it 
with its own permissions and UID/GID, since vfat doesn't understand 
users and permissions.

How did you mount the USB drive?  What OS you using?

Also 'man mount' and search for "uid=" or "gid="

Regards,
- Robert
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