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Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

From Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: SanDisk USB stick problem
Date 2020-12-08 23:50 +0100
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On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 16:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > Others have suggested reformatting, but maybe a more
> > > > constructive path
> > > > forward is to return the bugger, complaining that it doesn't
> > > > work.
> > 
> > That seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
> > Presumably
> > the stick was bought for some purpose.
> 
> If you never complain&return those products broken-by-design, the
> companies will keep bringing them to the market.

But in this case the product isn't broken. The bundled Windows security
software on the USB stick is a red herring, it certainly doesn't
'break' the USB stick.

The OPs problem is he's trying to chown something on a FAT filesystem,
and the FAT format doesn't have the concept of different ownership.
Linux just sets an owner for the whole filesystem when it is mounted,
so to have different owner you would need to mount it differently.
(Don't ask me how, my GUI just mounts removable media when I click on
it with ownership by me, which is what I want).

-- 
Tixy

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SanDisk USB stick problem Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-12-08 16:30 +0100
  Re: SanDisk USB stick problem steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2020-12-08 16:50 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-12-08 20:50 +0100
  Re: SanDisk USB stick problem l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-12-08 16:50 +0100
  Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-08 17:00 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-12-08 20:50 +0100
      Re: SanDisk USB stick problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-08 22:20 +0100
        Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-08 22:30 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-08 23:10 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-09 00:00 +0100
              Re: SanDisk USB stick problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-09 00:40 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 23:20 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2020-12-08 23:30 +0100
              Re: SanDisk USB stick problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 09:10 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-09 10:00 +0100
              Re: SanDisk USB stick problem "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-12-09 10:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-09 12:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 22:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-09 22:30 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 22:40 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-09 23:20 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-08 23:50 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-12-09 02:10 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2020-12-09 10:20 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2020-12-09 02:10 +0100
  Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-12-08 17:00 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-08 17:00 +0100
  Re: SanDisk USB stick problem David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-12-09 05:40 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 11:30 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 19:40 +0100
      Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 20:20 +0100
        Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 21:30 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 21:40 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-10 09:30 +0100
              Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-10 09:40 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-10 10:00 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-10 10:10 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-10 11:00 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-10 11:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-10 14:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-10 20:10 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 10:20 +0100
                Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-10 13:50 +0100
          Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 09:20 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 18:40 +0100
            Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-12-10 20:10 +0100
        Re: SanDisk USB stick problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 09:20 +0100
    Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved] Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2020-12-09 20:30 +0100
      Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 20:50 +0100
        Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-09 21:30 +0100
        Re: SanDisk USB stick problem [solved] Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 10:10 +0100

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