Am 23.12.18 um 13:51 schrieb Richard Owlett: > I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet). > All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during installation. > > The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted. > All files were in /user/richard on source machine
Are you sure, that USB device is also in an ext format? What does the 'mount' command report for that USB device? > They _often_ [but not always] are seen as owned by 'root', not 'richard', by > the destination system. > > Why? I assume it is me in some manner. What are the numerical UID's for that user? > What do I have to do to guarantee absolutely that any file/directory from > /home/richard is seen by destination system as owned by 'richard'? > > What should I have read? > > TIA > >
