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> --- HTH