--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., Ripunjay Bararia
<ripunjay@d...> wrote:
> chown the full directory as
>
> chown -R root:root /mnt/back
>
> and then you will be the owner of the back directory/partition...
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> > drwxr--r-- 8 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 D
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I am talking about above partition. I am logged in as digitalsecure
and after su'ing I use chown -R digitalsecure:digitalsecure /mnt/back
It says
"Changing ownership of /mnt/D: Operation not permitted"

It belongs to root and as root I cannot change its ownership. Why?

regards
--Himanshu