I managed to copy my data from the Fedora partition to DVD+RW, but could not save the installation, so I installed again.
This time i created a partition for data (/dev/hda4 /mnt/data), and as Root was the only "user" with access to this partition I ran (as root) chown -R bill.data /mnt/data which allowed me to access the partition as user bill.
I then copied the previously saved data from DVD+RW to /data. All went fine, but I cannot write to any directories so copied to /data.
I again ran the above chown command to no apparent effect.
Apparently the copied/backed up data retained the original permissions.
How do I change these? Do I need to do it directory at a time and/or file at a time?
I still find permissions a little confusing at times, especially in these instances.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bill
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