Re: chown ??
- From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:21:14 +1000
On 29Jun2011 14:25, james tate <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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 .
I notice that /mnt/home/tom isn't in /home. If /home/tom is a symlink
then you'll get what you describe.
cd /home
ls -ld tom
Is it a symlink?
If so, you need to go:
cd /home/tom
chown -R tom:tom .
or
cd /home
chown -R tom:tom tom/.
or some variantion of that form.
Note the "/." in the second example: that _enters_ the tom directory for
the chown.
Cheers,
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