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Changes set are no applied to a locally plugged external device

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Message #8 received at 37062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37062: Changes set are no applied to a locally plugged
 external device
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:13:07 +0200

Hi Ricky,

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 01:23:31PM +0300, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> Component under* Linux Fedora*: coreutils.x86_64   8.31-2.fc30  @updates
> 
> Changes set are no applied to a locally plugged external device

Perhaps the external device's filesystem does not support Unix access
controls. Perhaps the external device is mounted with options to fix user,
group, and access rights as seen by Linux.

> Commands executed:
> # whoami
> root
> # cd /run/media/yk/maxell/Varmuuskopiot/Fedora/
> # chown -R root:citser ../Fedora/ && chmod -R 750 ../Fedora/
> # ls -l ../; ls -l
> [...]
> drwxrwxrwx. 1 yk yk  440 16. 8. 23:32 Fedora
> [...]
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 yk yk 155 16. 8. 23:32 config
> 
> As noticeable owner and groups mentions are both yk while they respectively
> should be root, citser.

You could try to find the active mount options by issuing:

    mount | fgrep media

Thanks,
Erik
-- 
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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