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Chown on secondary hard drive not working
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I'm trying to change the owner of an empty directory on a secondary hard drive on OS X 10.6 through the terminal using the usual command:
> sudo chown -R username dirname/
...but when I do this, nothing happens! The owner is *not* changed and no error messages appear. If I do this same command on a directory on my boot hard drive, the command DOES work. I have tried this on another computer as well on its secondary hard drive, and same thing...I cannot change the folder owner!
Chmod DOES work on the secondary hard drive, so this seems to be some bug with chown...does anyone have any ideas?
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Are permissions disabled on the secondary drive? Do a Get Info on the drive to verify. What you're describing occurs when permissions are disabled on a volume.
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How is the drive formatted?
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 
Are permissions disabled on the secondary drive? Do a Get Info on the drive to verify. What you're describing occurs when permissions are disabled on a volume.
Yes, they are...but when I try to uncheck the box, I get the following error dialog box:
"An unexpected error occured (error code -8076)"
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Originally Posted by besson3c
How is the drive formatted?
Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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Originally Posted by Seamus
Yes, they are...but when I try to uncheck the box, I get the following error dialog box:
"An unexpected error occured (error code -8076)"
Try this in the Terminal:
sudo diskutil enableOwnership /Volumes/ name_of_drive
It also wouldn't hurt to run Disk First Aid on the secondary drive.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Try this in the Terminal:
sudo diskutil enableOwnership /Volumes/name_of_drive
It also wouldn't hurt to run Disk First Aid on the secondary drive.
Works! Thank you so much.
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