Description of problem: As the root user, I am unable to change the permissions associated with a folder. I get the message "you do not have the permissions to do that" when I attempt to. further attempts using commands on the command line are documented here: http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=770151#post770151 I am NOT a veteran linux user so I have absolutely NO fucking clue what to do. It really frustrates me that there's nowhere to turn to when I get a problem like this. I'm hoping that this will be read by a human being capable of understanding how frustrating this is. I do not know ANYTHING about any of the other things on this damn web page and I have no idea how to categorize my problem. I chose the first thing listed because there's a list of thousands of completely nonsensical words and I don't know anything about any of them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
"I think eris is a vfat partition." VFAT has no concept of owners or groups, so all files in that filesystem get a particular ownership when the filesystem is mounted. See the 'man mount' man page, under the section 'Mount options for fat': uid=value and gid=value Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid and gid of the current process.) So you need to edit your /etc/fstab to add the correct uid= and gid= options for your /eris entry, something like: /dev/hda1 /eris vfat uid=500,gid=500 1 2 The 'uid=500,gid=500' is the important bit, and you'll need to put the correct UID and GID values in there. For questions about how to do this, why it is necessary, etc, you should ask on the fedora-list mailing list, where there are other people who may have come across similar situations: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list