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Hi list,
I copied my Arch Linux installation to an USB stick (with rsync), and it runs just fine. When receiving some messages like '/home/tj/ not ours', I recognized that all files have user and group 'root' now instead of 'tj' and 'users', and all permissions set (rwx for everybody).
I tried to change that with chown etc - but nothing happens. Nothing changes, no error message. There are similar reports on the web with regards to MacOS and external drives, but the offered solution (use numerical user id instead of the name with chown) does not help either.
Any idea what the problem could be?
Last edited by 4on6 (2012-04-18 14:24:15)
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What's the filesystem?
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What's the filesystem?
I guess you are on the right track. The stick has two partitions, / is EXT4, /home is NTFS, and chown etc did not work in the /home partition, but do work in the / partition (just did the test).
So maybe it was a mistake to use NTFS for /home (making it accesible from both windows and linux)? Or is there a remedy for the problem? Or is it not even considered a problem (but some apps like dropbox do complain)?
EDIT:
Here is a good description of the problem, it seems permissions and ownership can be set when mounting or in /etc/fstab/, but only for the whole partition as one, i.e. all files on it, not single files.
Conclusion: next time I use EXT4 for both partitions.
Last edited by 4on6 (2012-04-18 14:25:11)
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There a couple of ext2/3 drivers for win and I tested one of them with ok results. Don't know for ext4 support though. And there's always Samba.
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