On 01/29/2010 02:57 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Subject:
Re: A question to rsync....
From:
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Date:
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +1100
To:
Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB<freddog...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if
| I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner&
| group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:
What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
it does not support user and group information.
-- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
Thanks, Cameron, it was an NTFS partition. It is now an ext3 &
permissions etc are "as expected"!
Dave
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