Thomas, 
yes that is correct, a 'copy' of the geonode-data directory will alter the 
users and permissions. However if you copy the directory using tar, for 
example: tar cf - dirA | tar xvf - -C dirB then you'll preserver all the users 
and file directory permissions. 
Cheers, Ben

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Ben Wyss 
OpenQuake Community Manager
GEM Foundation
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27100 Pavia, Italy 
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On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Did you check the group and owner of the folder 
> "/var/lib/geoserver/geonode-data" ?
> 
> We found that if you create/copy the folder from another installation 
> usually the owner and the group is not set correctly to "tomcat6" and 
> geoserver is not able to read that folder so set the default data 
> directory to "/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/data".
> 
> Ciao, Thomas
> 
> 

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