On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:38:03 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/12/2013 09:51, Edward M wrote: > > 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. > > > > Read the man page for mount, section vfat. > > > You can't change the owner as FAT doesn't have a concept of owner, so > it's simulated at mount time. You can't change it at runtime. > > To change it you have to umount the device and remount it using the > appropriate option, all in the man page > > Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it a lot. I will read the man page for mount and experiment a little.
