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Perogy

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Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 2

Merging Partitions - forgot to preserve permissions

Hello Archers,

Recently I was merging some partitions on my drive, and stupidly forgot to preserve the permissions when using cp. It seems that all files are now owned by root 755. I have fixed my home directory permissions, but it seems there are a whole bunch of other directories/files on system that need to have different ownership and are screwing things up (/tmp and /var/log for example) is there some sort of list of proper file permissions for arch? or some way to set these back to the way they are supposed to be? I can't even start X because of these permission problems(it works fine on root).

Thanks for any help,
Perogy

Peanut

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 99

Re: Merging Partitions - forgot to preserve permissions

You might perhaps restore many of the permissions by forcing pacman to reinstall all your packages, but you would still have to change permissions of /tmp, /var, and so on manually.