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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:20:38 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> I got it transfered over. I noticed something weird tho. I was booted |
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>> from the CD. When I was checking the permissions to make sure things |
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>> were going well, it kept showing gentoo:users instead of dale:users for |
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>> example. The ones that were root were fine but the ones that should be |
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>> dale:users was gentoo:users. I stopped and reformatted the drives and |
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>> it always did the same thing. I finally gave in and let it copy anyway. |
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>> After it was copied, I chroot'ed in and all the permissions were like |
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>> they should be including dale:users. Any idea why it did that? It did |
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>> the same thing with both rsync -ax and cp -av. Just thought it was |
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>> weird is all. |
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> Filesystems store numeric values for UID/GID, commands like ls translate |
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> these to actual names. Gentoo normally makes the first user 1000, which |
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> is probably the UID of dale on your installation and gentoo on the live |
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> CD.Root is always UID 0, which is why that was shown correctly. |
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Oh, makes sense. Should have known that computers reduce everything to |
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numbers. ROFLMAO At least now I know why it did that. It had me |
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freaked out for a bit there. |
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New transfer is working very well. Pretty swift but not much difference |
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from the old one. At least I got some of the cruft cleaned out. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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