Re: files on ext. HD change their ownership by themselves ?!

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:08

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In article <1992Apr09.170729.2403@hiss.han.de> fifi@hiss.han.de (Axel Zinser)  
writes:

>  I just connect my old 105-MB hard disk as a second disk to my NeXTstation.
>  All worked fine up to the moment I recognized that the ownership of all
>  files had been changed to fifi.nogroup (my own id is fifi.fifi). I restored
>  the ownership, checked it and continued working. After a while I again
>  looked for the files on the second hard disk and - damned - the ownership
>  had been changed to fifi.nogroup again.... Can anyone tell me, why that
>  happens and/or which task does it? (I'll kill it :-))


You need an fstab entry for the disk...
something like this:

/dev/sd1a /<mount-point> 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1

You need to change <mount-point> to the path of where you have the disk  
mounted.

andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings

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