[xubuntu-users] Can't set permissions on a folder on an external drive on 14.04

[Fred Roller]

On 10/15/2014 08:44 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a USB thumb drive that has a folder who's permission I need to
> set to 744. Let's say the folder is named folder1. I issued the
> following command from the terminal:
>
> sudo chmod 744 folder1
>
> This has NO EFFECT on the folder permissions.
>
> I've also tried
>
> sudo chmod -R 744 folder1
>
> THAT has no effect either.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Anthony
>
is your prompt in the relative folder?  if the absolute path is 
/home/user/folder1 then your prompt should be in /home/user otherwise 
you should use the absolute path.  If you are not sure of the absolute 
path then cd into the "folder1" and issue the command:

    pwd


which will give you what you want.  Just for posterity and to make sure 
things are working on your system issue the chmod command with the 
absolute path:

    sudo chmod 744 /absolute/path/to/folder1


and see if it works.  If you are in the relative folder then:

    sudo chmod 744 ./folder1


should work as well. HIH.

-- 
- Fred

"Only those who can see the invisible
can accomplish the impossible." - Anonymous

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