On 12/30/13 10:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip]
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
I don't think it has anything to do with FAT. Everything was working just find on my system before upgrade. With the line in fstab: /dev/sdb1 /media/stick auto noauto,rw,users 0 0 Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that even as root. When I remove this like from fstab. The USB stick are mounting correctly as joseph:users owner except they have different mounting location which I don't like. -- Joseph
