[CentOS] LVM chown issues

Thu Aug 31 17:35:19 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:55 -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2006, at 8:29 AM, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 07:54 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 18:29 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> >>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I have got CentOS 64bit running on a Dell PowerEdge SC1850 with
> >>> hardware raid 1. My LVM partions donot seem to honour chown commands
> >>> for symbolic links. Is this normal? All other files and directories
> >>> honour it.
> >
> > <snip>

> 
> chown -h
> or
> chown --no-dereference
> 
> will change the ownership of the link source instead of the target  
> (regardless of LVM)

EGAD! I should (re-)read a man page at least once each decade!  :-(

For Linux and some others, true, but we need to be alert to
  
-h, --no-dereference
  affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file  (use-
  ful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)

> Tony Schreiner

I'm trying to imagine exactly how/when I would want to use this.

> <snip sig stuff>

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HTH