[oclug] Permissions confusion

Brian M binlinux at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 9 12:10:54 EDT 2003


Good Morning All

I tried to copy 5 cds onto the hard drive of linux pc last night 
running win4lin.
This worked previously but didn't with these new cds.
I'm guessing the software on the cds has changed.
 From the history (as root):
cd karcher_cd1
rm -rf *
mount /mnt/cdrom
cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* .
chown -R shop.shop *
eject
rm AUTORUN.INF
cd ../karcher_cd2/
... etc etc etc

If you look in the folder created as above the files look like this
(this is a subset of a long listing)
-r-xr-xr-x    1 shop     shop       320640 Jul  8 16:09 ILDA16.DLL
dr-xr-xr-x    3 shop     shop         4096 Jul  8 16:09 KUNDEN

If I use Windows drag-n-drop via win4lin (as user shop) to copy the cd 
to the harddrive I get
-r--r--r--    1 shop     shop       320640 Nov  8  1997 ILDA16.DLL
drwxrwxr-x    4 shop     shop         4096 Jul  9 10:18 KUNDEN

The permissions are different, the dates are different.
The problem is the program won't run (now) when the files are copied 
using method 1.

1 - How can I recreate the results of method 2 from the command line?
2 - What would I get if I made an image of each cd and mounted that?
     (I haven't looked into how to do this yet)




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