Not that this is relevant to usb or linux.... but FAT doesn't know about an owner.
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > Hi All-- > OK, I installed my Orange PCI card, added another half-gig memory, > changed out the HSF for a quieter one, booted, configured the USB card, > checked devices & dmesg, etc. > > I plugged in a 2.0 hub; it found all four ports. I plugged in the 120GB > disk; found it. Ran fsck on the vfat file system; it reported that > FAT32 was still alpha (I'm using RH 7.3 with a 2.4.18-3 kernel). > Mounted the filesystem, auto; system discovered the filesystem was > FAT32. > > Copied a 2-GB directory. Copying the whole thing (cp -r) was dog slow, > but when I copied individual files and groups of files, it seemed quite > speedy. Peculiarity of FAT32 on Linux, maybe? > > Then I tried to chown on the directory, and it told me, 'chown: changing > ownership of `/usbhd/Barb': Operation not permitted' (I hadn't done > chmod -R, simply chmod...). > > Is this another peculiarity of vfat on Linux? RH7.3? (Yes, I'm root.) > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Metta, > Ivan > ---------------------------------------------- > Ivan Van Laningham > God N Locomotive Works > http://www.pauahtun.org/ > http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html > Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 > Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
