[xubuntu-users] changing ownership on thumb drive

[Ralf Mardorf]

Some file system simply don't provide to store owner and group, so chwon
doesn't work, just mount can be used to set the owner.

$ sudo parted -l | grep Intenso -A7
Model: Intenso Rainbow (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 8087MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
 1      0.00B  8087MB  8087MB  fat32


$ sudo mkdir /mnt/usb


$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/usb


$ ls -hAl /mnt/usb/
total 45M
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root [snip]


$ sudo umount /dev/sdc


$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/usb/ -o uid=rocketmouse


$ ls -hAl /mnt/usb/
total 45M
drwxr-xr-x  3 rocketmouse root [snip]


$ sudo chown root:root /mnt/usb/*
chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/usb/[snip]': Operation not permitted
[snip]


More information is provided by the man page. Run

$ man mount

Regards,
Ralf