On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:38:03 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it a lot. I will
read the man page for mount and experiment a little.
