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2013/12/30 Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>: |
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> On 12/30/13 10:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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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 not |
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>>> permitted |
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>>> |
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>>> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 flash-drive1 |
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>>> |
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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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> I don't think it has anything to do with FAT. |
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> Everything was working just find on my system before upgrade. |
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> With the line in fstab: |
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> /dev/sdb1 /media/stick auto noauto,rw,users |
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> 0 0 |
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> Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that even as |
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> root. |
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> When I remove this like from fstab. |
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> The USB stick are mounting correctly as joseph:users owner except they have |
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> different mounting location which I don't like. |
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> -- |
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> Joseph |
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You can specify the user/group that mounts a device with some mount |
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options. I think they are uid=<username>/gid=<groupname> but I'm not |
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sure and unfortunatly not on my Linux box at the moment. |
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards |
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Randolph Maaßen |
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