Mello wrote:
On 5/18/06, Dennis J. Tuchler
wrote: 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) The fstab entry reads: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
The directory entry for /media/usbdisk is: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 1969-12-31 18:00 usbdisk I cannot copy anything to the drive. Odd. It must be hardware related as I can load files onto it when it is attached to the usb port of my other (SuSE) computer. I just pulled the external drive and reattached it to a different usb port. It is now fully accessible and I am the owner of each file. What's going on? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA Whatever is not forbidden is permitted -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller -- Wallensteins Lager