From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Spr0g-00075Z-OR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:19:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F4CDE071D; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail129c7.megamailservers.com (mail129c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371ABE0733 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:17:00 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin.sys-concept.com Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail129c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q6E1Gw3e027747 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:16:59 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B8DF22003C8; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only Message-ID: <20120714011714.GA8112@syscon7.inet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=QwqskdZ1mTNWkVAaeLoF1sxV+xuXRZ6OAlHET7foSQM= c=1 sm=1 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=eE5FB0p5ZPk0dtPGvE4A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.5000C88B.0097,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Archives-Salt: 19e27105-ff3b-4b7f-9e09-6748b9d0c059 X-Archives-Hash: a0268ef9b4d326dded419fbaf591f0de I've a usbstick formated with ext2 file system and must have use it on a different computer because when mount the usb stick I get file ownership: -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 692926 Jan 7 2012 asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 8502 Jul 21 2011 asterisk-help.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22696 Mar 26 18:27 asus_10-0-0-1_shaw_nvrambak.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22459 Mar 26 16:16 asus_home_10-10-0-1.nvrambak.bin The ownership should be joseph:users but when I try to change (as root) it I get : Read-only file system chown -R joseph:users /media/stick/* chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz': Read-only file system chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk-help.txt': Read-only file system How to deal with it? I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. -- Joseph