On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:39:21AM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > >[...] > > > >>swe@LinuxPPC:~$ 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 > >>. > >>. > >>. > >>swe@LinuxPPC:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /sda1 > >>swe@LinuxPPC:~$ 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. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
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