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#1 2006-08-05 05:29:53

K2712
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From: Greenville, SC
Registered: 2006-05-17
Posts: 28

Change ownership of entire hard drive

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.

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#2 2006-08-05 05:54:43

luca
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From: Rome
Registered: 2005-10-30
Posts: 280

Re: Change ownership of entire hard drive

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

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#3 2006-08-05 05:56:11

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Change ownership of entire hard drive

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

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#4 2006-08-05 05:59:58

K2712
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From: Greenville, SC
Registered: 2006-05-17
Posts: 28

Re: Change ownership of entire hard drive

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

Thanks for the help.

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