permissions on saving to usb disc

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I have been trying to save my data to a 120GB usb disk. I’ve used k3b,
konqueror copy to and resync. all the files are owned by username:users.
After the copies are complete the group has bee changed to username:root.
When I restore the file(files) I have to go in an change all the groups
back to users. why is it changing the permissions? Is there a way around
this?

openSUSE11.0, kde3.5.9, k3b 1.0.5

Thanks for any help or pointers.

Russ
Linux register user 441463
openSUSE11.0

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Hi
If you create a directory owned by the user rather that use the root
directory of the usb device you won’t have the problem eg


sudo /bin/mkdir /media/usbdisk/myusername
sudo /bin/chown myusername:users /media/usbdisk/myusername
chmod 755 /media/usbdisk/myusername

Note usbdisk and myusername are examples.

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Malcolm wrote:

>

> Hi
> If you create a directory owned by the user rather that use the root
> directory of the usb device you won’t have the problem eg
>
>


> sudo /bin/mkdir /media/usbdisk/myusername
> sudo /bin/chown myusername:users /media/usbdisk/myusername
> chmod 755 /media/usbdisk/myusername
>

>
> Note usbdisk and myusername are examples.
>
Thanks Malcolm. I finally got around to trying this today. It did not work
with the sudo (keep giving error on the mkdir step) but I was able to
accomplish it by logging on as root. The rsync still had some permission
problems but I got those straightened out. the last restore I did
apparently used username:root and some of the . directories were 755
instead of 700 and vice versa. I compared them to my 10.3 install and
changed them accordingly. So far no problems.

Again thanks for your help.

Russ
Linux register user 441463
openSUSE11.0