Re: problem ... experimenting

[bntly_rhds <bentley.rhodes@gmail.com>]

	okay ... i discovered a way around my mistake.  it may not be THE 
answer, but it is my solution for now.  i basically copied everything 
off to another folder and told it to reassign the ownerships and stuff 
there in a temp folder, and then formatted the sandisk 256mg usb drive. 
  which brings up another problem.
	when i formatted it (to remove all previous information there) it 
wouldn't let me format it (using parted) as a fat32 drive.  it would say 
cannot comply.  i told it to start at 0 and end at 250 (the drives start 
and end points before were 0.031 and 243.171 (i tried that too)).  it 
failed.  so i formatted it as ext2.  i'm going to try again later to get 
it back to fat32, but at least it is working.
	on a different topic ... i was wondering if anyone ever tried making 
their /home folder on the /media/home?

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.
> 
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