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On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 02:27:52 +0100 bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/06/14 22:43, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > >I am a Linux only user for 15 years now > > Holy crap, that's longer than me... *you* should be telling me how to > fix things by now surely :] > I donât think so. The last version of Windows that I ever used was Windows 98 the year is came out. The next year I moved to Linux. > > sudo chown neilwin /media/neilwin/usb-device > > From man chown: "If only an owner (a user name or numeric user ID) is > given, that user is made the owner of each given file, and the files' > group is not changed." > > Note the 'given file' - your original command didn't operate > recursively, although you should have been able to create/delete files > in the usb drives' TLD after that. Maybe you were trying > unsuccessfully to use the GUI to operate in subdirectories > afterwards, which at that point hadn't inherited the parent > directory's new permissions so would have naturally failed. > > >did not get any error messages > > You know how *nix works - no feedback means the command worked, for > certain values of 'worked'. Well, the command returned an exit code of > 0, for whatever that may be worth. Out of pure habit I append ' -v' > to almost every command I type in a shell so I get a bit more > information about what on earth is happening. > Yes, I see all that now. I must be getting sloppy in my old age. And the -v flag is usually useful so I tend to use it too. > > Permissions can indeed be a pain. But both useful and necessary. I do realise that. > > sudo is there for a reason, just be careful when you bruteforce > things. It is definitely in your best interests to understand *nix > permissions - which are awesome by the way, far *far* better than > windows - and I always point curious people towards this old but > excellent tutorial: > > http://www.grymoire.com/unix/Permissions.html Will have a look at that. Thanks. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq