On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600 Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've a usbstick formated with ext2 file system and must have use it > on a different computer because when mount the usb stick I get file > ownership: -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 692926 Jan 7 2012 > asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 8502 Jul 21 > 2011 asterisk-help.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22696 Mar 26 > 18:27 asus_10-0-0-1_shaw_nvrambak.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 > 22459 Mar 26 16:16 asus_home_10-10-0-1.nvrambak.bin > > The ownership should be joseph:users but when I try to change (as > root) it I get : Read-only file system chown -R > joseph:users /media/stick/* chown: changing ownership of > `/media/stick/asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz': Read-only file system chown: > changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk-help.txt': Read-only > file system > > How to deal with it? > I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. The error clearly tells you the file-system is read-only. It does not say permission denied. Fix the read-only aspect first -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
