Hey Bob. Puzzling one this. You should cc the group on all mail as athere are way more skilled players than me.
soemting is very odd here. As root you can go to / and command rm -rf /* and watch the whole OS disappear. So I don't understand why you * can't chown the contents of the partition. Next step: As root: mkdir /testdir chown sue /testdir mount -t msdos /dev/hda?? /testdir ls /testdir You ought to see the contents of /testdir. chown -R /testdir/* If this doesn't work, chown -R /testdir/* > chownfail.txt mail -s Re:mountpermissionproblems debian-user@lists.debian.org <chownfail.txt -- Patrick "sig free and joyful"" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699
