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Re: Directory ownership



On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:50:03AM -0500, Gean Ceretta wrote:
> Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried:
> 
> 
> # chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean
> 
> but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the /
> home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as:
> 
> /dev/sda3       /home           auto    defaults        0       0
> 
> this is the correct way to mount this? the problem can be here? All the home
> dirs in this machine have root ownerships.
> 

If it's a Windows partition, ownership and permissions cannot be
changed.
BTW, the format of a Linux partition can be NTFS?
If it's allowed, is it possible to modify the file ownership and permissions on
this partition?


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