Re: Why I can not change ownership of an OCFS mount point?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ivanova Crawford wrote:

>From /etc/fstab
>
>/dev/emcpowerb7         /u07                    ocfs   _netdev
>
>drwxrwxr-x    1 500      oinstall   131072 Aug 10 16:41 u07
>
>When I'm trying to issue the following command it doesn't let me:
>
>  address@hidden root]# chown root:oinstall /u07
> chown: changing ownership of `/u07': Operation not permitted

This is not a coreutils issue - chown is simply passing back the results
of the chown system call. It would seem that your system does not permit
changing the ownership of mountpoints in that way.


Cheers,
Phil