Adding a hard disk

User Iam vramnum10 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 20:20:45 UTC 2007


On 1/18/07, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
>
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > I thought I was in great shape until I rebooted.
> >
> > I changed the owner of /home/backup to kip and the group to nogroup.
> > I changed the file permissions to drwxrwxr-x
> >
> > Then I copied a 24 GB directory to the /home/backup directory.
> >
> > When I rebooted, the /home/backup was owned by root, the group was root,
> > and the permissions were drwxr-xr-x and the file in the directory was
> > "lost+found"
> >
> > Now what do I do? I want it to be shared so I can send data to it from
> > other computers. But It will not work if it changes ownership, group,
> > and permissions.
> >
> > Kip
> >
>
> Follow the directions in:
> How to browse files/folders as root user in Nautilus
>
> http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper#How_to_browse_files.2Ffolders_as_root_user_in_Nautilus
> [http://preview.tinyurl.com/2yypa9]
> to allow root browsing in Nautilus.
>
> Then, Applications|System Tools|File Browser (Root)
>
> Browse to your new directory/files, right click on the folder,
> Properties|Permissions and change the file owner & file group permission
> to the appropriate user/group.
>
>
>
>


I am guessing this problem is fixed..

User Iam
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