sudo chown : operation not permited

jschiwal · 06-13-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackWidower

For those who were wondering I fixed my problem. Vfat volumes don't store owner information so Linux automatically assigns it as root. Its not easy to switch data to a different filesystem on the same drive...I lost data in the transfer. :'(

Read through the man page for the moubt command. If this is an internal drive's partition, and you have an entry for it in /etc/fstab, then you can use the "uid" and "gid" options to change the ownership and group ownership of the partition. Also keep in mind that the fat32 filesystem has a 2 GB file size limit.

theBrettman · 09-03-2008, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackWidower

So how can one edit files on a vfat volume in Linux?

I had the same problem. All I had to do was add the volume to my /etc/fstab and to mount it, I just double-click the volume and it automatically mounts it to the mount point I set in fstab and fixed all my ownership problems too.

oouc · 03-21-2009, 08:12 AM

The final post in this thread on permissions said,

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Originally Posted by theBrettman

... All I had to do was add the volume to my /etc/fstab and ... fixed all my ownership problems too.

Here is my /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information....
UUID=1234-1234 /media/hda9 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=44 0 1

Ubuntu 8.04 did not do svn co correctly to my vfat partition. It saved things in my vfat partition with owner root and group plugdev
I had to do
sudo adduser me plugdev
Try it again and get
`me' is already a member of `plugdev'.

Things then started working better.