On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700
Joseph <[email protected]> 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
>
I too ran the chown command on my USB flash and got the same
response as you did:
localhost001 media # chown cru:users flash-drive1/
chown: changing ownership of ‘flash-drive1/’: Operation not
permitted
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 flash-drive1
Don't know what to tell you. interesting....my says Dec 31 1969.