Adam Shand writes: > > > I just moved my Linux to a larger hard drive. Unfortunately, root appears to > > own everything. What is the easiest way to fix the permissions? I still have > > the original drive that I moved from and can still mount it. > > The easist way is to copy it from the original again and either use 'cp > -a' which will preserve permissions correctly or use tar which will also > preserve permissions correctly. > > Becarefull about overwriting /proc and /dev though as that can cause > problems. >
Actually, I did have to put the drives back to original configuration and re-copy the root partition into the new drive. I retained various messages about methods which could be used. The following two worked correctly: (for my /var partition after mounting the new replacement on /mnt) cd /var; cp -a * /mnt (for the new root partition mounted on /mnt using a working system as source) cd /;find . -path './mnt' -prune -or -print | cpio -dump /mnt I then 'rm -r *' the contents of the /mnt/proc & /mnt/var directories since they would become mounting points for the future working system. After clearing those directories, I did a 'shutdown', swap of drives, fixed CMOS settings on power-up, booted via rescue floppy, and ran LILO. Now I have breathing space 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
