Okay so I was root, mounted a flash drive, and then accidentally copied a file to the flash drive so it inherited the root group's permissions. No big deal I thought, I'll just chmod and chown it to my normal log in. WRONG! Anyways here's the commands/their output I tried after copying that file as root and their output. I ran them as verbose when I could. All these commands were entered by root. The file in question is /media/usb/vimnotes
At the top are the permissions before I try to mess with them, displayed by ls -l. I think you can tell the other commands I ran, if not I'll clarify.
Any ideas what happened? I'm extremely perplexed that chmod 777 as root did not set the permissions correctly.
Code:
mount -w /dev/sda1 /media/usb/ #usb is a symbolic link to usb0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 1969-12-31 14:00 /media/usb/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 1969-12-31 14:00 /media/usb0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-03-26 02:58 /media/usb1/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 305 2008-03-26 15:35 /media/usb/vimnotes
chown: changing ownership of `/media/usb/vimnotes': Operation not permitted
failed to change ownership of `/media/usb/vimnotes' to jlang:users
mode of `/media/usb/vimnotes' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) #tried chmod 777 here, no luck
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 305 2008-03-26 15:35 /media/usb/vimnotes
failed to change group of `/media/usb/vimnotes' to users
/media/usb/vimnotes: ASCII English text
/etc/mtab
Code:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 vfat rw 0 0
/etc/fstab
Code:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 vfat rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
