Permissions problems....

[saint_geser]

Hi guys. I have some trouble with Debian. I have mounted my external USB hard drive, but since i did it as root all permissions are set to root as well. So I tried to change permissions with

chmod -R a+rwx /home/cherep/USB_disk/

and what it does is just changes permissions to the folders but does nothing with files. How can I change permissions to all the files inside folders?

Thanks for the help.

[minigeek]

Hi

Change to the usb directory

cd /home/cherep/USB_disk/

Once inside the usb directory run the following command

chmod -R a+rwx *

[saint_geser]

When I do it i get a very long list of errors saying something like:

"Changing permissions for the file *** Error! Unsupported operation"

And so it ends. Yet again it changes permissions to folders but not to the files inside folders.

[minigeek]

When I do it i get a very long list of errors saying something like:

"Changing permissions for the file *** Error! Unsupported operation"

And so it ends. Yet again it changes permissions to folders but not to the files inside folders.

Are you running the command as root?

[saint_geser]

Thanks for the help guys. I think I found what was the problem - Debian doesn't support writing onto ntfs partitions out-of-box so when i tried to give everyone +rwx it didn't like it.

I downloaded ntfs-3g and it worked fine with

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/cherep/USB_disk -o defaults,umask=0

I found that somewhere on the forum. Now it works just fine!