Root unable to change ownership and modify permissions

[I Am Me]

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* Replying to - Re: Root unable to change ownership and modify permissions
* from : M Thomason <matt at warpedcore.net> sent on Tuesday 20 Apr 2010 @ 10:46:45 am
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> Is /media/Andrew by any chance a removable disk/USB device? (making the 
> assumption due to it being mounted in /media) - if so, have you checked 
> how it is mounted, and that it is formatted with a filesystem which 
> supports permissions - I'm almost tempted to ask if it is a FAT32 memory 
> stick or a windows partition, but wouldn't want to unintentionally 
> insult you ;)
> 
> Either way, would help to know how /media/Andrew is mounted
> 

Its a NTFS formatted partition on my on-board 80 GB HDD

iamme at thishost\~ >df -h | grep Andrew
/dev/sdb5              35G   24G   12G  68% /media/Andrew
iamme at thishost\~ >
iamme at thishost\~ >mount -l | grep Andrew
/dev/sdb5 on /media/Andrew type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) [Andrew]
iamme at thishost\~ >

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