On 30/12/2013 09:51, Edward M wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:42:33 -0700 > Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> 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 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
