Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-29 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal):

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:42:00 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on > investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t > have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the > ownership had reverted to root:ro

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 18:09:31 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux Which is as it should be. I have only a meagre knowledge of GNOME and automounting but the cause of the chan

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 24 December 2011 17:50, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 17:20:03 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive. >> >>  !532 >> sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX >> ba

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 17:20:03 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote: > > > > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive. > > !532 > sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX > bash: sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d45

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on >> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t >> have the right permissions. On further checking I f

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on > investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t > have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the > ownership had reverted to root:

NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the ownership had reverted to root:root, so I rebooted. When everything had come back online I checked