Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 11:35, schreef Hans Ekbrand: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:39:21AM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > >[...] > > > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /sda1 > > >>total 4908 > > >>drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 . > > >>drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 4096 Jan 11 16:19 .. > > >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6148 Jan 10 13:56 .DS_Store > > >>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 23 12:27 .Trash-swe > > >>. > > >>. > > >>. > > >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180 Jan 11 15:59 hints > > >>. > > >>. > > >>. > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /sda1 > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chown -R swe /sda1 > > >>chown: changing ownership of `/sda1': Operation not permitted > > >>chown: changing ownership of `/sda1/.Trashes': Operation not permitted > > >>chown: changing ownership of `/sda1/macintosh.pdf': Operation not > > >>permitted > > >>. > > >>. > > >>. > > >>chown: changing ownership of `/sda1/hints': Operation not permitted > > >>. > > >>. > > >>. > > > > > >That seems strange to me, what filesystem is it? The only thing I could > > >imagine > > >is that the filesystem doesn't support the operation - VFAT? > > > > Don't no what filesystem, it's an USB-Memory stick. So I think it isn't > > a filesystem in the common sense. > > Anything that you mount is a filesystem. When the stick is mounted try > > $ mount > > and it will say what filesystem it is. > > Since VFAT is the most common filesystem used on USB-memory sticks, > that is almost certainly the problem here.
I can confirm that VFAT doesn't support changing ownership. -- Lingewoud B.V. | Tel. +31 418 663963 Maasdijk 4 | Fax. +31 418 663053 5328 BG Rossum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands | www.lingewoud.com
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