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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:38:03 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 30/12/2013 09:51, Edward M wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700 |
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> > Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: |
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> >> chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt |
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> >> chown: changing ownership of |
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> >> ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted |
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> >> file ownership is: |
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> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar 6 2013 |
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> >> Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt |
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> > I too ran the chown command on my USB flash and got the same |
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> > response as you did: |
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> > localhost001 media # chown cru:users flash-drive1/ |
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> > chown: changing ownership of ‘flash-drive1/’: Operation |
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> > not permitted |
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> > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 flash-drive1 |
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> > Don't know what to tell you. interesting....my says Dec 31 1969. |
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> Read the man page for mount, section vfat. |
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> You can't change the owner as FAT doesn't have a concept of owner, so |
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> it's simulated at mount time. You can't change it at runtime. |
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> To change it you have to umount the device and remount it using the |
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> appropriate option, all in the man page |
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Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it a lot. I will |
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read the man page for mount and experiment a little. |