Change Permissions on a new hard drive to allow

[mtyoung]

Thanks, James.

MTYoung

James Gray wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 07:18, mtyoung wrote:
>   
>> James,
>>
>> Thanks for the answer, wish I'd seen it sooner. Now I just need to learn
>> what "-R a+rw *" means. Hopefully the link will will help.
>>     
>
> -R = recurse the directory tree
> a+rw = a=all users (ie, user+group+other), +rw=add read and write permissions 
> to whatever is already there. So if a file/directory was 
> originally -rwxr-x--x the use of "a+rw" will turn it into -rwxrwxrwx.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>