[nmglug] A little off Linux but...

[Jason Schaefer]

Brian

Looks like the data was written by a user with userid 501, which does 
not exist on your system and is not you. You can reset the permissions 
easily on the command line with 'sudo chown -R user.group /mnt/backup' 
and then 'sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/backup' 

777 will give owner, user and other full access (read, write and 
execute). The -R (capital) will set these permissions recursively on all 
files and folders under /mnt/backup.



BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Hopefully this isn't too far off GNULinux but maybe someone can help me.
> I backed up my OS X data a long while back and cannot access it.
> I have a Firewire drive that has 3 partitions, all originally Mac file
> system.
> One partition is unreadable, at all, in OS X and no utility will access
> it. All 3 are mounted in Linux and I can access 2 of them and read the
> data. The 3rd is visible and I can see the directories and in Nautilus
> or Gnome-Commander they even show up as the various extensions. When I
> try to open them they all return errors that the data is unreadable.
> The permissions seem screwy and I've included terminal output below. I
> don't know the UID 501 and the Group Dialout.
> Any idea if I can change the permissions to me and thereby access the data?
> Thanks for any and all help!
>
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