Hi Peter,
> > > here is fstab:
> > >
> > > UUID=21FC-A114 /media/TV vfat defaults 0 0
>
> /dev/sdb5 on /media/TV type vfat (rw)
Oh, it's vfat. The penny didn't drop initially. vfat has no concept of
users and groups so by default the filesystem in the kernel takes on the
user and group ID of the process that mounted it. By using /etc/fstab
and having it mounted at boot that's root and chown(1), etc., won't
work; the filesystem can't store the change.
You can add options after the `defaults' to tinker with those defaults.
umask is one, see mount(8), but I'd suggest
UUID=21FC-A114 /media/TV vfat defaults,uid=peter,gid=peter 0 0
assuming that's your user name. A
sudo umount /media/TV
sudo mount /media/TV
afterwards should show the improvement.
Cheers, Ralph.
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