On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:05:59 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been using a 3 TB Seagate Go-Flex Desk USB 3.0 drive to store
> backups and movies, labeled Movies. It is also the default location
> where Ktorrent stores downloads.
>
> I had recently downloaded all the Fedora 19 files via torrent, so they
> were on this drive. Just now I dragged them from Movies to my
> laptop drive with Thunar. I got a bunch of permission errors. So I
> looked at the Movies drive from the command line and found a mess.
> About half of the files are owned by "500" and the rest by me. The
> permissions appear to be OK for both (rwxrwxrwx, although some are
> rwxrwxr-x).
That's a Red Hat-ism. They chose to start user UIDs/GIDs at 500,
while Debian chose to start with 1000. I assume you're using a
Debian-based system now, so this isn't surprising -- well, not to
me, anyway. :-)
>
> And another odd thing, using Gnome-terminal, for about a third of the
> files and folders the permissions, ownership and size columns are OK,
> but the name is an unreadable solid green bar, of a length equal to
> the number of characters in the actual name.
Huh. Green text on a blank background means the executable bit is
set. I don't know what a green background means, nor the
combination of the two. Check your /etc/DIR_COLORS* files and see
if anything is supposed to set the background to green.
> All this appears to have come about after wiping out Fedora and
> installing Xubuntu. On the other hand, I rarely move files back and
> forth from Movies, so the mess could have been going on for a long
> time.
>
> Should I just chown them all to jjj:jjj? So that I can avoid this in
> the future, what could cause this to happen?
Yes. As I said above, it's just because Red Hat and Debian chose
different starting points for the normal user UIDs and GIDs. As
of F17, Fedora has also gone to a starting point of 1000. So that
particular problem shouldn't show up anymore. (Of course, I have
no idea what other distributions do.)
Hope this helps.
--Dale
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