Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > A very simple thing (that could have solved the whole thing in the first > place now I think about it...) > >> cd ~/music >> sudo chmod -Rvf 644 . >> sudo chown -Rvf diana:root . > > this will recursively apply the permissions and the ownership to all files in > the folder and all sub folders.
Matt >>> I'm going to have to run this after a 'sudo su', as follows sudo su cd /home/diana/music chmod -Rvf 644 chown -Rvf diana:root (and I won't hear about any 'fails' because of the -f; is that right? Does it matter?) But more importantly, is it safe to run this as root? (BTW the reason for not using this general reset before was that I want to use rsync to back up the music folder, and I guess (it really is a guess) that re-writing all the owner/group and permissions would result in rsync re-copying *all* the files to the usb drive - a job that ties up the machine for about four hours!) -- Diana -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
