Re: problem ... experimenting

[bntly_rhds <bentley.rhodes@gmail.com>]

Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, Feb 16, 2005, at 11:52 US/Central, bntly_rhds wrote:
> 
>> hey i was experimenting with my HOME folder, i made a backup first, 
>> and the experiment didn't work.  long story short, somehow, my usb 
>> drive thinks that ROOT owns all the files.  they originally belonged 
>> to me. root moved them and i didn't.  how do i put them back to me?  
>> i'm trying  the following:
>>
>> chown -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
>> chgrp -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
>> chmod -R u+rwx,g+rw-x,o+r-wx
>>
>> it says (with -Rv) that i'm not allowed (even as root) to change the 
>> user ID or group ID of the folders, and or files.
> 
> 
> What filesystem is on your USB drive?
My filesystem is ext2 on the USB drive.  it was showing up as fat32.  i 
couldn't make links on the drive at all, then copy and paste them over 
to home.

> How did you mount the USB drive?  What OS you using?
i mounted the filesystem with: #mount /dev/sda1 /media/tyeblen .  i know 
what you all say about 'sda' being akin to scuzzi devices, but it 
doesn't load it with /dev/sda.  not does it mount when i say #mount 
-text2 /dev/sda /media/tyeblen


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