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On 09/11/2021 10:30, Julian Hall wrote: > On 08/11/2021 18:52, comrade meowski wrote: >> On 08/11/2021 10:11, Julian Hall wrote: >> >>> julian@Cerce:~$ sudo chown julian:julian /media/julian/DEMETER >>> chown: changing ownership of '/media/julian/DEMETER': Operation not permitted >> >> Well that seems pretty clear... I guess it's not happy about the mountpoint being >> in use, which seems fair enough. Let's try: >> >> sudo umount /media/julian/DEMETER >> sudo chown julian:julian /media/julian/DEMETER >> >> # if no errors about permissions, reboot >> >> If something is holding open a file on that filesystem the umount will fail and so >> will the subsequent chown so watch out for that. >> >> The end goal is to simply change the owner of /media/julian/DEMETER to >> julian:julian. > julian@Cerce:~$ sudo umount /media/julian/DEMETER > [sudo] password for julian: > julian@Cerce:~$ sudo chown julian:julian /media/julian/DEMETER > julian@Cerce:~$ > > *saved reply, rebooted* > > julian@Cerce:~$ cd /media/julian/DEMETER > bash: cd: /media/julian/DEMETER: Permission denied > > It seems to allow permission mount the device but not to the actual files. > > Juliam > Something, somewhere is altering permissions "for" you ... what .. I cannot fathom .. meowski ?!
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