18 May
2006
18 May
'06
16:25
On 5/18/06, Dennis J. Tuchler
I have some files on an external flash drive mounted at /media/usbdisk. All the files are owned by the root. I logged onto /media/usbdisk did "su" and then chown [user] *, only to get a notice for each file that the change of ownership is not allowed.
How do I change ownership of the files on that external drive?
Hi Dennis, it's hard to say, that's exactly what I'd do :) Some questions/suggestions: 1. is the filesystem mounted read-only? (if you didn't mount it manualy you can check that by looking at /etc/fstab) 2. is there any message in /var/log/messages? (as root: tail /var/log/messages) Thanks, -mw