Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I want to thank you all for your comments and the knowledge I gained thereby Kenneth Burgener wrote: On 5/31/2008 3:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: You can't expect it to maintain ext3 file permissions in a FAT32 partition :D Not necessarily. If the Linux files do

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-31 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 5/31/2008 3:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: You can't expect it to maintain ext3 file permissions in a FAT32 partition :D Not necessarily. If the Linux files do not need to be accessed from the windows environment, you could create an image file, format the image as

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-31 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting errors with changing the group owner. Huh? > > So I try to just use mkdir to create a directory on the flash drive. The > directory has a group of root ??? > > OK why can't I set the group to something oth

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-31 Thread Johnny Hughes
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync command and altered it to go to lo

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Unfortunately, I have to use it on Win systems as well... then as someone else suggested, use tar. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: > I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. > I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync > command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (name of flash > d