Re: A question to rsync....

[DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/29/2010 02:57 AM, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Subject:

Re: A question to rsync....

From:

Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +1100

To:

Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 28Jan2010 23:32, DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| If I rsync from my desktop to my laptop, all appears to be well, but if 
| I use a script to copy files from desktop to external HDD, the owner & 
| group all get changed to 'root'. part of my script follows:

What format is your external drive? If it is, say, a FAT filesystem then
it does not support user and group information.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

Thanks, Cameron, it was an NTFS partition.  It is now an ext3 & permissions etc are "as expected"!

Dave

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