Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600
Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

The error clearly tells you the file-system is read-only. It does not
say permission denied.

Fix the read-only aspect first



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Alan McKinnnon
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