Hi I've got a USB hard drive that has all my music and other files already on it (used to use it on a Windows XP machine). I thought I'd mount it on my new Ubuntu server and then point SqueezboxServer at the music directory on the USB drive. This seems to have worked and Squeezebox server can play the music.
However whilst I was poking around in the shell I discovered that all the files and directories on the USB drive were owned by "root" and in the group "root", the privilges are 755 which means that I need to be root to write to this disc. This is a problem to me because when I rip new music on my PC I can't copy it accross to the USB drive unless I log in as root. I've tried to change the owner and group of all the files and directories on this drive using "sudo chown -R ian:users /Data" (/Data is the mount point for the USB drive) but this doesn't seem to have any effect. Is there anything different about USB drives or pherhaps that the file system on the drive is FAT32 Any ideas? Cheers -- Stoker --ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stoker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8264 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83727 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
