On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:42:53AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Fred wrote: > > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /media/usb0 > > chown: changing ownership of '/media/usb0': Operation not permitted > > sudo chown fred /media/usb0 > > Would that work better?
Not if there's a (V)FAT file system on the device. Besides, the "root@" at the start and the "#" at the end of the shell prompt would normally mean they're already root. Ownerships and permissions only work with Unix-type file systems, such as ext4.