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The fix (was: files on ext. HD change their ownership by themselves ?!

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From: Charles Herrick
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:57
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Axel Zinser writes
> I just connect my old 105-MB hard disk as a second disk to my  
NeXTstation.
[...]
> I recognized that the ownership of all files had been changed 

This belongs on comp.sys.next.sysadmin, so I've set the net news header  
line "Followup-To:" accordingly.

you need to have an entry in the file called /etc/fstab for both drives,  
otherwise the automounter resets ownership of files on drives that are not  
the boot drive. This happens when you log in (right?).

Put a second line into /etc/fstab like this:

/dev/sd1a	/OldDrive	4.3 rw, noquota	1 2

To learn more about this, launch Digital Librarian and search the UNIX man  
pages for fstab and mount and umount

and don't forget the command "mount -p" for those times when you can't  
remember the syntax of the lines you have to put in /etc/fstab!.

By the way, before you diddle with /etc/fstab, since you'll have to log in  
as root, make a copy of /etc/fstab first (call it something like  
fstab.original) and then edit /etc/fstab.

	Good luck
	chuck
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