james tate 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 kind of ran into that myself. /mnt is owned by root, so mounting user stuff
to that is always problematic.
My solution:
mount user stuff to /home/you/mountpoint.
Eg. I mount my Documents partition and my Backup partition to
/home/me/Documents and /home/me/Backup. This way, I am the owner and I don't
have to ???? with changing the ownership of /mnt/stuff.