[ale] Shoot! I really screwed it up now!

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Gary MacKay wrote:
> 
> How do I fix the permissions on the entire drive? I was in the root
> directory and wanted to change a couple of .xxx files ownership. I
> issued a "chown root:root .*" command and promptly watched it change the
> entire drive. Why did it do that? At the most id should have done /root/
> and whatever was under it, not the whole frigging drive!
> 
> I presume I'm just hosed royally right?

Are you sure it changed the -entire- drive? That
doesn't make sense, unless you have either (a) mis-quoted
the command you used (was it really "chown -R root:root .*"?),
or else (b) aliased chown to "chown -R" in an .rc file
somewhere.


Cheers,

-- Joe

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