[K12OSN] Moving Home files to a new server

[John Lucas]

On Monday 08 October 2007 00:45, Carl Keil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> So, the big disaster happened.  My K12LTSP hard drive died.  I've got
> everything backed up (thank you BackupPC), so I thought I was golden,
> but I'm having a weird problem.
>
> When I restore files from backup they are showing up "read only" in
> people's directories.  When I do a "ls -la /home/username" it is showing
> that the files are owned by other users and other groups.  A "chown -R
> username:groupname /home/username" doesn't solve the problem.
>

What!? Unless your /home partition is mounted read-only the ownership should 
change when root tells it to change. What, if any, change takes place when 
you issue that command? Do you get any error message? Make sure that /home is 
mounted read/write.

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