Hi,
I'm having some weird issues with thumb drive ownership. Steps:
1) 'sudo blkid' to call up the thumb drive assignment
2) 'sudo mount /dev/sd* /thumb' [where /dev/sd* is the drive assignment,
and /thumb a directory off of the root]
---> 2a) [NB: /thumb is owned by the local account (here, 'blah')
__before__ the mount command. Afterwards, the mounted thumb drive is
owned by 'root' and can't be changed]
3) 'sudo touch /thumb' [for some reason, I get the default DEC 31 1969
when I mount the thumb drive]
but, when I type
'sudo chown -R blah:blah /thumb', [where 'blah' is the local account], I
get
'chown: changing ownership of '/thumb': Operation not permitted'
***
The chown switches -R or --recursive do not work. [there are
subdirectories on the thumb drive, and I would like all subdirectories
to be changed to 'blah' ownership]
I suspect that the system's assignment of a wrong date/time to the drive
might block the ownership change even after 'touch'. Is 'touch'
counterproductive?
I have disabled automounting of thumb drives or indeed anything not in
fstab [ie. hard drive]. I have removed the /media directory.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Jordan
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