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I am retrieving data from a WD world book 1 hard disk. i put it in a black widow external hard drive box and connected it to my linux box (Fedora 13) using a usb cable. Applications/systemtools/diskUtility sees the drive, showing it to be raid-1. Clicking on the largest raid component, I can then 'goToArray' and mount it. I see several folders, which ls -al shows are owned by others. chown -r desiredname foldername works to change ownership for all but one folder. Now the ls -al shows what is below, with owner 33 still unchanged. I have been able to copy all but that one folder to a new location, but can't seem to figure out how to access the MASTRO...one.
How to proceed? Is this some security feature for WD WorldBook 1, as this is the folder for the manager account.
I am retrieving data from a WD world book 1 hard disk. i put it in a black widow external hard drive box and connected it to my linux box (Fedora 13) using a usb cable. Applications/systemtools/diskUtility sees the drive, showing it to be raid-1. Clicking on the largest raid component, I can then 'goToArray' and mount it. I see several folders, which ls -al shows are owned by others. chown -r desiredname foldername works to change ownership for all but one folder. Now the ls -al shows what is below, with owner 33 still unchanged. I have been able to copy all but that one folder to a new location, but can't seem to figure out how to access the MASTRO...one.
How to proceed? Is this some security feature for WD WorldBook 1, as this is the folder for the manager account.
so Tink, continuing, in the interest of learning i find that this line means that the owner is 33, the group is tape.to see the content, i think i need to change ownership or group, or create an account that matches the listed ones.
i have tried, as su, to chown -R tracy foldername but can't get it to change
i have tried, as su, to chgrp -R tracy foldername but can't get it to change
i created an account called 33, logged into it, but it also does not have access to the folder or desired file
i have not created a group called tape yet, will try that
where else can you point me to learn how to fix this problem?
The problem has been solved. I'm not exactly sure what was the fix, but here is what I did for anyone who might have a similar issue.
opened the drive in disk utilities
moved to the large partition in the series of 4 raid-1 partitions on the disk
started the raid-1 in degraded mode
in terminal, as su
fsck.ext3 -rv /dev/sdr4
answered yes to all questions
this caused the journal to be deleted
some fixes followed
the journal was recreated
mounted the drive in disk utilities
went to the drive as su in terminal
chmod ugo=r name_of_folder
that unlocked the folder
cp'd all files to new hard drive
ownership was now root, so changed that
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