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Re: SanDisk USB stick problem



On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:42:53AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> > root@ragnok:/home/fred# chown fred /media/usb0
> > chown: changing ownership of '/media/usb0': Operation not permitted
> 
> sudo chown fred /media/usb0
> 
> Would that work better?

Not if there's a (V)FAT file system on the device.  Besides, the "root@"
at the start and the "#" at the end of the shell prompt would normally
mean they're already root.

Ownerships and permissions only work with Unix-type file systems, such
as ext4.


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