root is denied the ability to change permissions?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09:
> Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when
> I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain
> things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave
> drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my
> regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back
> in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change
> this.
> 
> Any idea why this is and what I can do about it?
> If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what
> you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it.
> 
> sincere thanks for all the help I've gotten in here already!
> --
> Dennis C.

I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs
filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown.

Alexander


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