Re: Owner/Group changes depending on which volume you're booted from?
Re: Owner/Group changes depending on which volume you're booted from?
- Subject: Re: Owner/Group changes depending on which volume you're booted from?
- From: Chris Suter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:59:33 +1100
On 30/10/2006, at 9:08 AM, Cameron Hayne wrote:
On 29-Oct-06, at 4:30 PM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
The first time I viewed Drive A from a 10.3.7 boot volume. This is
how it
looked:
drwxrwxrwx 8 jeffrey admin 272 7 Oct 2004 Act 2a Project
drwxrwxrwx 7 jeffrey admin 238 12 Sep 2004 Act 2c Project
drwxrwxrwx 4 jeffrey admin 136 6 May 2005 Andrew -
King of the
Wo Project
drwxrwxr-x 45 root admin 1530 29 May 2002 Applications
Next, I booted from a 10.4.8 volume. Again, these are the same
files from
Drive A.
drwxrwxrwx 8 jeffrey jeffrey 272 Oct 7 2004 Act 2a
Project
drwxrwxrwx 7 jeffrey jeffrey 238 Sep 12 2004 Act 2c
Project
drwxrwxrwx 4 jeffrey jeffrey 136 May 6 2005 Andrew -
King of the
Wo Project
drwxrwxr-x 45 jeffrey jeffrey 1530 May 29 2002 Applications
Can someone explain this to me?
The filesystem stores the numerical user-id, not the name. So there
is a lookup to find the name that corresponds to the numerical user-
id. That lookup uses the user account info of the system that you
are booted on.
Try using the "-n" option to 'ls' to see the numerical user-id's.
Whilst this is true, I suspect this is actually because you'll have
ignore ownership selected (bring up the Info window for the volume in
Finder) whilst on the 10.4.8 volume, but not whilst on the 10.3.7
volume.
Anyway, this isn't anything to do with Cocoa so it's probably best
taken to another list.
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