Okay so dumb ass me created new partitions using gnome disks from a mint live boot, and installed arch in them without formatting them again in the Arch installation, now I have some weird bugs because of that, how do I change the partitions owner to root without breaking the installed system?

The user and group of the partitions root is not the root user but whatever Mint has as a default user for its live boot

  • 12510198@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    If its just / owned by the mint user, you should just able to run chown root:root / as root/sudo, dont use -R. This should make root become the owner of /. Now if all files and directories in the partition are owned by the mint user, this might be a bigger problem

    • notTheCat@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      Yes it was only / and /boot, I changed the owner and permissions without recursively doing so and now the bugs I encountered are gone