Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: <snip> > Is there a reason why the group needs to be root? > if you change the group to "diana" or "users", does that make a difference > (it think it might...)
Nearly all the files in the music library had 'diana' as owner and 'root' as group. It was the half-dozen or so that had 'diana' as owner that were causing rsync to generate an error when it tried to chgrp these on the usb drive (which it couldn't do, as the drive is formatted FAT32). (I don't actually know why rsync does this; and Alan seems to get by with just ignoring it!) Anyway, will I be ok doing the following? sudo su cd /home/diana/music chmod -Rv 644 chown -Rv diana:root (According to O'Reilly, chmod and chown don't have a Force option; rather it gives this: -f, --silent, --quiet Do not notify user of files that chmod/chown cannot change) I'm now at the point where rsyncing the whole lot again is the least of my worries. Forgive my anxieties about tinkering any further without some reassurance, but I am fairly new to this, and the music library represents days and days of work ripping CDs to flac! Having it all but inaccessible now is making me very nervous! -- Diana -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
