On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 07:42:33PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: > > chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt > chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: > Operation not permitted > > file ownership is: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5796864 Mar 6 2013 Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt
The thread kinda zig-zagged off on me, so hope you don't mind a post here. Perhaps this guide would be as nice a read for you as it was for me. It brings back memories as I started using Linux in June, 2003, just before he wrote it: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Security/Quick_and_Dirty_Guide_to_Linux_File_Permissions Second, please issue "blkid" and give the line for this USB device. Cheers, Bruce -- List replies preferred. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
