file permissions

Pedroski · 11-06-2009, 08:01 PM

I have my old Ubuntu permission mounted, to copy things off of it before removing it. I can't. Permission denied. The owner of say Documents and all therein is user id 1000.
I come from the Fedora partition, and have user id 500.

How do I change the owner of home on the ubuntu partition to myself?

Mr-Bisquit · 11-06-2009, 08:27 PM

Can you mount and access the files as root?
I'd give fstab on the partition with the group users included on it. Mount the partition as read only and copy a file to the user's home directory. The other is to create a user with an id the same as the Ubuntu user.

Pedroski · 11-06-2009, 10:38 PM

I can mount the partition. But cant even read the file I want, cowjokes.odt It loads an empty document instead. This started when I thought, Oh, Ubuntu has an upgrade, Iĺl go for it! Jesus, I wish I hadnt!

John VV · 11-07-2009, 12:03 AM

as root just copy them off the old drive .

Pedroski · 11-07-2009, 11:32 PM

Thanks, did that. If I want to let others read them, do I need to put them in group users?