[xubuntu-users] changing ownership on thumb drive

[Roger]

Maybe access them with elevated privileges as root.

On May 13, 2016 6:20:17 AM EDT, JMZ <florentior at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having some weird issues with thumb drive ownership.  Steps:
>
>1) 'sudo blkid' to call up the thumb drive assignment
>
>2) 'sudo mount /dev/sd* /thumb' [where /dev/sd* is the drive
>assignment, 
>and /thumb a directory off of the root]
>
>---> 2a) [NB: /thumb is owned by the local account (here, 'blah') 
>__before__ the mount command.  Afterwards, the mounted thumb drive is 
>owned by 'root' and can't be changed]
>
>3) 'sudo touch /thumb' [for some reason, I get the default DEC 31 1969 
>when I mount the thumb drive]
>
>
>but, when I type
>
>'sudo chown -R blah:blah /thumb', [where 'blah' is the local account],
>I 
>get
>
>'chown: changing ownership of '/thumb': Operation not permitted'
>
>***
>
>The chown switches -R or --recursive do not work. [there are 
>subdirectories on the thumb drive, and I would like all subdirectories 
>to be changed to 'blah' ownership]
>
>I suspect that the system's assignment of a wrong date/time to the
>drive 
>might block the ownership change even after 'touch'.  Is 'touch' 
>counterproductive?
>
>I have disabled automounting of thumb drives or indeed anything not in 
>fstab [ie. hard drive].  I have removed the /media directory.
>
>
>Any ideas?  Thanks,
>Jordan
>
>
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