On 05/03/13 12:52, Chris Green wrote:
OK, my guess then is that it's something to do with the way the drive is mounted.
/dev/sdc1 on /media/Seagate Backup Plus Drive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
This is the relevant one, that "type fuseblk" worries me slightly (mostly because I don't know what it means!). ... a quick google informs me that fuseblk indicates that it's probably a non-Linux drive formatted as ntfs or something similar.
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I think the problem is the Seagate Backup drive. It appears not to have a Linux filesystem on it and the permission flags don't map to or from it properly. So you *can't* get the right permissions on the files if you copy them to/from that drive.
Well spotted. I hadn't thought of that. I'll take more care in future. Lesson learnt. Ta.