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 1Sq4aF-000167-1i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:48:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5EBDE07C7; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D6EE07AB for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaae12 with SMTP id e12so1210939eaa.40 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:46:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zUmI1DPePcv7hb0oov6IBR85kBThOv4UCHbqH03MX3M=; b=ZyVquPA4KFkaERNdZIP/1eS1HUgRISreGzmjxslWc6OpQRMeCqy0hIshXGdr1bz2NP jivWTTmheAdV+9a+3vUf3+pu9cwAsK5vW1vhKlOeL6IPDAMaWcNRXdRcgQqwRYWI1SV+ e4QdncnTYh9aejQ9IjsfP2508fM4Qo8VgcAy9gY4/zR+YcRzm5UWNqM5TQMtwty4Lio2 QlcKdC1dp9TdErkPKvvw62dk3rBLhLenAPx3hY9rRYsYOhmpUJUE8B0efzKzcC5Wb21C 7EM00cjoTwhQbf6BUd1HQWUVaifZPIjG6CDOfioMJJOEadIPQtbezj/WCq5rqEX9LbjW JGew== Received: by 10.14.0.130 with SMTP id 2mr2472991eeb.22.1342280796614; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-57-83.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.57.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m45sm4561075eep.16.2012.07.14.08.46.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:46:26 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: syscon780@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only Message-ID: <20120714174626.551d573f@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120714011714.GA8112@syscon7.inet> References: <20120714011714.GA8112@syscon7.inet> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f1673e7-34c4-44d1-933c-746eae51fa35 X-Archives-Hash: 03a1256df15986c280fb08f144dc5eef On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600 Joseph 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 -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com