On 08/25/2010 11:23 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* John McMillan ([email protected]) [20100825 19:06]:
to which I receive the following confirmation -
changed ownership of `/media/C:/Documents and Settings/John/My
Documents/Word/John/Augustine.doc' to john:john
Looks like this is a DOS/WIN partition, i.e. vfat or ntfs. These file
systems don't know of unix style access rights. Owning user are group are
set via mount options (see 'man 8 mount') and can't be changed by chown.
This is a shortcoming of the file system, not of chown.
Additionally, if the file system claims that chown() succeeded when it
in fact did nothing, then that would be a bug in the file system driver,
to be fixed by the kernel folks (that is, it is not coreutils' job to
detect whether the chown() syscall has a buggy return value for your
file system).
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