Am 29.06.2011 20:25, schrieb james tate: > On a backup drive /mnt/home/tom , I want to change all directories and > files in tom to owner:tom . > > The drive is mounted but from /home the command chown -R tom tom is not > changing the directories and files to owner, tom . > > Command chown -R tom:tom tom won't change the ownership in the > directories and files in > directory tom .
please provide some infomrations, nobody can help you if nobody knows anything! * which user does execute "chown"? * outputs of "ls -lha" * use "chown --preserve-root --changes --no-dereference -R"
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