Re: Strange behavior

[Fritz Wettstein <fwenospam@gmx.ch>]

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.

snipp...
> HTH,
>
>   
partly

Fritz