[svlug] obvious error I'm missing

[Jason Corcoran]

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:54 Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
>
> I am probably missing some kind of obvious error.  I am trying to chown on
> a directory called capturedDV which resides on an external hard drive
> (ehd). I tried
>
> $ sudo chown cje.cje capturedDV
>
> while logged into the dir in which capturedDV resides, but received this
> error message:
>
> chown: changing ownership of 'capturedDV/': Operation not permitted.
>
> I must have made some really obvious error that I am just not seeing.  I am
> using Hardy 32 bit.  Thanks in advance for any help.


capturedDV is a directory not a file.

You need chown -R cje.cje <name of directory>


Jason.

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