Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: > >> I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. >> I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync >> command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (name of flash >> drive). I am getting errors with changing the group owner. Huh? >> >> So I try to just use mkdir to create a directory on the flash drive. >> The directory has a group of root ??? >> >> So I try a chgrp and get: >> >> [root at mine me]# chgrp me /media/RALLY2/Stuff >> chgrp: changing group of `/media/RALLY2/Stuff': Operation not permitted >> >> >> OK why can't I set the group to something other than root? >> >> ls -lstr /media/ >> total 4 >> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 me root 4096 May 30 16:28 RALLY2 >> >> and of course for /media: >> >> 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 30 16:18 media >> >> > > Most likely the device is formatted as FAT32, which has no concept of > permissions. > > Reformat it, ignore the errors, or modify your rsync command to not preserve > uid/gid. Unfortunately, I have to use it on Win systems as well...