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    chmod/chown crashed my PC...

    Hello.
    I learned a little bit too late that fat32 didn't allowed permissions ... and trying to change them on an external storage disk I've made the following mistakes:
    from root (and I was on /), Ive changed the owner of all the files on my PC :
    (as root, from /) chown -R root *
    and all the permissions to 777 :
    (as root, from /) chmod -R 777 *
    I changed the permissions in order to be able to start a session (to solve problems such as :"unable to open bash", etc)....
    I can open a session, but nothing works, because of the owner, and permissions are incorrect...
    Is there any possibility to restore the permissions to default, and the owner to default ?
    What can I do to solve that [big] problem (I know it is a very stupid mistake...)?
    Thank you very much for your answers.
    PS: sorry for my bad english...

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    Re: chmod/chown crashed my PC...

    I'm sorry but it will be very hard to revert... Or you will have to install it on another disk and copy permissions on this system back...
    It's the only solution I have....

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