Root cannot change file permissions.

aje · 08-12-2005, 12:41 AM

I'm trying to change permissions of /media so my regular user can write to /media.

I'm trying "chown -R aje:1000 /media" as root, but I'm still being told "permission denied"

What am I doing wrong?

gbonvehi · 08-12-2005, 01:49 AM

What's mounted on media? It could be that it's mounted as read-only.
If you mount it using fstab post /etc/fstab or if you're doing it manually post the command you're using.

aje · 08-12-2005, 02:18 AM

Code:

/dev/hdb1        /media           vfat        users,auto,rw,umask=000     1   0

note: I added the users option to see if that would have any effect on changing ownership. I have not rebooted or remounted the drive though ...

gbonvehi · 08-12-2005, 02:27 AM

Try:

Code:

/dev/hdb1        /media           vfat        auto,gid=100,user,umask=000 0 0

And yes, you've to remount the partition using mount /media or reboot.

If you've doubts about the parameters you can check with fstab and mount's man pages.