[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Kris Marsh]

On 6/7/07, luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> <snip>
> >> rsync: chgrp "/media/USBdisc/Music/." failed: Operation not permitted (1)
> > I must say I am watching this thread with interest. The above messages
> > appear when i rsync my music and podcasts to my mp3 player.
> >
> > The difference is I just ignore it :)
>
> I'm beginning to wished I'd ignored it too!  I'd now be glad just to get
> back to square one, with my 3000+ music files accessible again, and only
> worry about the rsync group permissions if I ever have to restore the
> music library from the usb drive.  Which is looking increasingly likely!
>   :-(
>
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> Diana
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Hi Diana,

You should be able to do the following:

- Change the owner of all files in music/ back to yourself:

sudo -Rf chown diana:diana music

- Fix the permissions back to default:

chmod -R 644 music

- Ignore the chgrp error, as it's nothing to worry about. Because the
device's filesystem is not one that can understand the concept of unix
user/groups, the command fails. It's not a problem, as all users
should be able to access these files anyway...

- rsync shouldn't need to synchronise all the files again. It should
just update the permissions/owners as necessary.

- You should now be back where you started, in the knowledge that the
original error is safe to ignore :-)

HTH,
Kris