ownerships/permissions in sub-directories?
 

hello,
i wanna change the ownership of a folder so i typed:

chown -R fadi:fadi /mnt/collection

this changed all the subfolders in collection, but it didn't change the files permission !!

can anybody help me plz :)

files permission
 

hello,
i wanna change the ownership of a folder so i typed:

chown -R fadi:fadi /mnt/collection

this changed all the subfolders in collection, but it didn't change the files permission !!

can anybody help me plz :)

files permission
 

i used the -R option but it changed all the subfolder not the files included .... can anybody help :)

Please don't hijack threads, please don't drag up dead threads, and please don't post the same question multiple times

Please don't hijack threads, please don't drag up dead threads, and please don't post the same question multiple times

fadinader,

If ownership was changed by that command you can change permissions by doing this:

user@host--$: chmod -R 775 /mnt/collection

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Next time if you need help you may start your own new post. Some people here do not welcome hitch-riding or thread-hijacking for often times this will increase confusion. Here I am not confused so I offer you a side-help.

I hope this will help.

Good luck.

please post the command you used.
Any error messages?

i used chown -R fadi /mnt/collection

- no errors

- all subfolders were owned by fadi

- but all files are still owned by root

Files permission
 

i want to change the ownership of a folder and all things in it,

i typed "chown -R fadi /mnt/collection"

- all the subfolders was owned by "fadi"

- but all files are still owned by root user

note that the permission of the folder is "drwxrwx---"

all i want is to change all the files ownership to user "fadi"

thanks

If they're owned by root to begin with, use sudo

i'm sry i did'nt know :)
an thank u for helping but i did this

anywayz i started a new treat as u told me

thanks

yes i did this as root

Do you mean that the group owner is root, like:
fadi:root?
If so, what is your group? How are your files displayed in the file listing, if you use ls -l? fadi:your_group?
Whatever your group is, just use

root@debian:/mnt/collection/fadi# ls -l
total 836
drwxrwx--- 1 fadi fadi 4096 2009-08-22 16:44 4 linux
-rw------- 1 root root 44277 2009-05-07 16:45 CI-2-hearing-aid.pdf
-rw------- 1 root root 23629 2009-08-01 22:47 config.xml
drwxrwx--- 1 fadi fadi 0 2009-08-20 13:53 Dave’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » From The Linux Terminal To Shell Scripts_files
-rw------- 1 root root 39146 2009-08-20 13:53 Dave’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » From The Linux Terminal To Shell Scripts.html
-rw------- 2 root root 299008 2009-05-25 19:27 Introduction to.doc
-rw------- 1 root root 245760 2009-05-25 12:20 machines.tar
-rw------- 1 root root 49152 2009-08-23 04:12 mej.doc
drwxrwx--- 1 fadi fadi 0 2009-07-17 13:41 Music
-rw------- 1 root root 66048 2009-05-08 22:22 Output with switch closed.doc
drwxrwx--- 1 fadi fadi 8192 2009-04-25 15:25 Pictures
drwxrwx--- 1 fadi fadi 40960 2009-08-07 20:18 Sources
-rw------- 1 root root 23552 2008-06-18 13:07 Thumbs.db


all folders have been changed
all files does not changed

Try
What is the filesystem?

i don't understand what do u mean by filesystem

and nothing was changed whan i typed chmod -R 775 /mnt/collection

it says operation not supported next to each file.

you are doing this as root?
Is it ntfs or fat32 ?
Is this a windows partition?

this will help us understand the filesystem

yes as root

ntfs

no it is a normal drive

Take a look at the thread you highjacked before, they offer a solution.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...anging-600649/

debian:/mnt/collection# pwd; mount; df -h
/mnt/collection
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/xp type ntfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/coptics type ntfs (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /mnt/others type ntfs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /mnt/collection type ntfs (rw)
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 5.8G 2.1G 3.5G 38% /
tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 96K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 20G 11G 9.4G 53% /mnt/xp
/dev/sda5 45G 35G 11G 77% /mnt/coptics
/dev/sda8 42G 35G 7.4G 83% /mnt/others
/dev/sda6 37G 29G 8.6G 77% /mnt/collection

^ i dont think ntfs supports unix style permissions.

maybe since it is mounted by root all the files assume the ownership of root ?

who owns /mnt/collection ?
maybe:
maybe then the files below will assume the owner as fadi; else you mite have better luck chown-ing the files then ?

maybe it's right but why i couldn't change the files ownership ?

the problem is in the ntfs fromat ?

fadi own all folder
but root own all files

fadi owns all folders

root owns all files

Take a look at
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?i...an_ntfs_volume

nothing has changed

Yeah if it's ntfs the current ntfs built-in support has buggy rw so it's normally only rw for root. hence why all files are owned by root. You might want to download ntfs-3g for your distro and then mount the device for ntfs-3g instead of ntfs.

thanks alot to all

i installed the ntfs-3g package and it works normally

You can mark the thread as solved if you want.

I've cleaned up your mess and merged the three hi-jacked threads posts
with the one you started. Please don't double-post, please don't hi-jack
others threads. Both is considered very rude behaviour on these boards.



Cheers,
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