How to revert permissons of /media/username directory?

Austin Rojers

5/27/24, 5:40 PM

I, by mistake, ran the command:

sudo chown -R username:username /media/username/*

While I intended to run:

sudo chown -R username:username /media/username/586e1a3e-80c3-4057-81bz7-bbfe7662c6ff

How can I revert the permissions of the /media/username directory and its contents?

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Rinzwind

5/27/24, 5:59 PM

That command is valid for a removable media. If you want to revert either restore a backup or you will need to use `chmod` with the correct username and usergroup for each file and directory. But again: the command is the normal command to take ownership (for $USER:$USER)

Austin Rojers

5/28/24, 4:09 AM

You mean, there is nothing much to worry about?

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Raffa

5/28/24, 11:23 AM

I, by mistake, ran the command:

sudo chown -R username:username /media/username/*

While I intended to run:

sudo chown -R username:username /media/username/586e1a3e-80c3-4057-81bz7-bbfe7662c6ff

These two can be identical, if the only mounted media/disk partition was just 586e1a3e-80c3-4057-81bz7-bbfe7662c6ff.

If, however, other media were mounted at the time of running the first command, then * will normally be expanded by the shell to all non-hidden(Not starting with a dot .) files(media or otherwise) and therefore they will be affected by that command equally.

How can I revert the permissions of the /media/username directory and its contents?

This directory was not and can not be affected by your first command (Under the current versions of Ubuntu which inhibit hard/soft links to parent directories) and therefore, doesn't need reverting whatsoever.

Also, other than currently mounted media, that directory usually has no contents by default.

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