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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 not |
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> 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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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