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. > > Suddenly, this stuck me as being out-of-kilter. Can you demonstrate > this? I went to my /boot, non-LVM, and did this test. > > # cd /boot > # ls > boot.b initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img > <snip> > > # ln -s boot.b myboot.b > # ls -l boot.b myboot.b > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Feb 21 2005 boot.b > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 31 08:04 myboot.b -> boot.b > # chown wild-bill myhtl > # ls -l boot.b myboot.b > -rw-r--r-- 1 wild-bill root 5824 Feb 21 2005 boot.b > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 31 08:04 myboot.b -> boot.b > > The symlink is unchanged. Trying the same on an LVM file. > > # cd /tmp > # ls > <snip> >> <snip> > > HTH > -- > Bill > chown -h or chown --no-dereference will change the ownership of the link source instead of the target (regardless of LVM) Tony Schreiner