On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: > Afternoon All, > > I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the > folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as > being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown > -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors. > > Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to > my user? > > Thanks, > > Steve Garton > sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 drives as if you own all the files. e.g. sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 HTH -Matt Daubney
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