Folder ownership changing by itself?

road hazard · 11-18-2023, 08:52 AM

I have 2 folders on a HDD. /mnt/spindle/plex and /mnt/spindle/emby. (The main Emby and Plex apps live on the SSD and I just use the folders on the spindle drive for a transcoding location.

I was running down a problem and noticed that /mnt/spindle/plex was owned by: systemd-network:systemd-journal
and /mnt/spindle/emby was owned by: systemd-timesync - systemd Time Synchronization:systemd-timesync

I did not change the ownership and am wondering how in the world did this happen?!

jailbait · 11-18-2023, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by road hazard

I did not change the ownership and am wondering how in the world did this happen?!

What ownership did you expect the two directories to have?

boughtonp · 11-18-2023, 09:03 AM

Ownership is numbers - the names are just labels - so if the drive is shared with another machine, maybe there's a mismatch.

Use "stat PATH" (or "ls -n") to confirm the UID/GID values, and see if they match values from /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the other system.

e.g. "egrep -w '123|456' /etc/passwd /etc/group" would match 123 or 456 (but not 1235 or 1456).

If it's not a shared drive then... *shrug* when systemd is involved, who knows what it might do...

road hazard · 11-18-2023, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by jailbait

What ownership did you expect the two directories to have?

DUH

sorry..... I originally had that folder set to plex : plex

road hazard · 11-18-2023, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

Ownership is numbers - the names are just labels - so if the drive is shared with another machine, maybe there's a mismatch.

Use "stat PATH" (or "ls -n") to confirm the UID/GID values, and see if they match values from /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the other system.

e.g. "egrep -w '123|456' /etc/passwd /etc/group" would match 123 or 456 (but not 1235 or 1456).

If it's not a shared drive then... *shrug* when systemd is involved, who knows what it might do...

I have since chown'd the folder back to the rightful owner and group (plex : plex) and everything is back to normal and I used your command to verify the UID/GID values..... it's not a shared folder so systemd weirdness I guess?!!?