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bug#6913: change file ownership/permissions from root to user fail even
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Philipp Thomas |
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bug#6913: change file ownership/permissions from root to user fail even with success confirmation |
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Date: |
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:23:07 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
* John McMillan (address@hidden) [20100825 19:06]:
> to which I receive the following confirmation -
> changed ownership of `/media/C:/Documents and Settings/John/My
> Documents/Word/John/Augustine.doc' to john:john
Looks like this is a DOS/WIN partition, i.e. vfat or ntfs. These file
systems don't know of unix style access rights. Owning user are group are
set via mount options (see 'man 8 mount') and can't be changed by chown.
This is a shortcoming of the file system, not of chown.
Philipp