I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover my old /home directory from a backup disk. But on re-installing the system (which had been in operation for several years) I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000.
I dealt with this by chown -R, which worked fine. But I remember reading some years ago about this, with other solutions suggested. The reason I'm interested is that I am trying to put together the old system from pieces that survived, or were backed up, and each time I start the old system I have to chown again. Any suggestions of an alternative to chown gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
