On 6/7/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > <snip> > >> rsync: chgrp "/media/USBdisc/Music/." failed: Operation not permitted (1) > > I must say I am watching this thread with interest. The above messages > > appear when i rsync my music and podcasts to my mp3 player. > > > > The difference is I just ignore it :) > > I'm beginning to wished I'd ignored it too! I'd now be glad just to get > back to square one, with my 3000+ music files accessible again, and only > worry about the rsync group permissions if I ever have to restore the > music library from the usb drive. Which is looking increasingly likely! > :-( > > -- > Diana > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
Hi Diana, You should be able to do the following: - Change the owner of all files in music/ back to yourself: sudo -Rf chown diana:diana music - Fix the permissions back to default: chmod -R 644 music - Ignore the chgrp error, as it's nothing to worry about. Because the device's filesystem is not one that can understand the concept of unix user/groups, the command fails. It's not a problem, as all users should be able to access these files anyway... - rsync shouldn't need to synchronise all the files again. It should just update the permissions/owners as necessary. - You should now be back where you started, in the knowledge that the original error is safe to ignore :-) HTH, Kris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
