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Re: Strange behavior



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:
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >>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.

I can confirm that VFAT doesn't support changing ownership. 

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