Change ownership of entire hard drive

K2712 · 2006-08-05 05:29:53

I just installed a second hard drive to house all of my music files, and mounted it to /media, then transferred all of my files to it. The problem is, I used samba to transfer all of the files from my XP box, so all the directories/files are owned by root, and it would take my a day and a half to chown each individual directory. Is there an easy way to change ownership of the entire drive/directory? Sorry for the noob question but google and man chown didn't really help me much.

luca · 2006-08-05 05:54:43

Hi,
you can use chown -R <user>:<group> <directory>

Snowman · 2006-08-05 05:56:11

Use the recursive switch:
chown -R USERNAME:users /media
where USERNAME is your user name.

K2712 · 2006-08-05 05:59:58

Ahhhh, so that's what recursive means.....

Thanks for the help.

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Change ownership of entire hard drive

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Re: Change ownership of entire hard drive

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Re: Change ownership of entire hard drive

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