Re: USB Drive weirdness

Martin D Kealey <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:04 +1300 (NZDT)

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On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
> If it's an existing filesystem it would probably be safer to chown all the
> files, or use find to set a+rw on the files, and only set a+rwx on the
> directories ..

That's what chmod's "X" option is for -- it only turns on the "x" bit on for
directories (or if one of the other "x" bits is already on).

Hence

	chmod -Rc a+rwX /media/fubar

will solve the problem, as would

	sudo chown -Rc $(id -un): /media/fubar

-Martin

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