Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:20:38 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> I got it transfered over. I noticed something weird tho. I was booted >> from the CD. When I was checking the permissions to make sure things >> were going well, it kept showing gentoo:users instead of dale:users for >> example. The ones that were root were fine but the ones that should be >> dale:users was gentoo:users. I stopped and reformatted the drives and >> it always did the same thing. I finally gave in and let it copy anyway. >> >> After it was copied, I chroot'ed in and all the permissions were like >> they should be including dale:users. Any idea why it did that? It did >> the same thing with both rsync -ax and cp -av. Just thought it was >> weird is all. >> > > Filesystems store numeric values for UID/GID, commands like ls translate > these to actual names. Gentoo normally makes the first user 1000, which > is probably the UID of dale on your installation and gentoo on the live > CD.Root is always UID 0, which is why that was shown correctly. > > >
Oh, makes sense. Should have known that computers reduce everything to numbers. ROFLMAO At least now I know why it did that. It had me freaked out for a bit there. New transfer is working very well. Pretty swift but not much difference from the old one. At least I got some of the cruft cleaned out. Dale :-) :-)
