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: Jeffrey Ellis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:07:32 -0800
- Thread-topic: Owner/Group changes depending on which volume you're booted from?
on 10/29/06 4:59 PM, Chris Suter at email@hidden wrote:
>
> 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.
Right, of course. Thank you.
>
> Anyway, this isn't anything to do with Cocoa so it's probably best
> taken to another list.
>
Done.
All My Best,
Jeffrey
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