lfs-book/chapter06/changingowner.xml

<sect1 id="ch06-changingowner">
<title>Changing ownership of the LFS partition</title>
<?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?>

<para>Now we're in chroot, it is a good time to change the ownership of
all files and directories that were installed in chapter 5 back to root.
Run the following commands to do so:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>chown 0:0 / /proc &amp;&amp;
chown -R 0:0 /{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,mnt,opt,root,sbin,tmp,usr,var}</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Depending on the filesystem you created on the LFS partition, you may
have a /lost+found directory. If so, run:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>chown 0:0 /lost+found</userinput></screen></para>

<para>These commands will change the ownership of the root partition and
the <filename>/proc</filename> directory to root, plus everything under
the directories mentioned in the second line. In these commands, 0:0 is
used instead of the usual root:root, because the username root can't be
resolved because glibc is not yet installed.</para>

</sect1>