I'm trying to chown a volume, but I get "Operation not Permitted" no matter what permissions I change. I'm using OS X Leopard.
users-mac-pro:~ users$ chown 0:0 /Volumes/Snowfx
chown: /Volumes/Snowfx: Operation not permitted
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Sign up to join this communityI'm trying to chown a volume, but I get "Operation not Permitted" no matter what permissions I change. I'm using OS X Leopard.
users-mac-pro:~ users$ chown 0:0 /Volumes/Snowfx
chown: /Volumes/Snowfx: Operation not permitted
I believe you need to prefix the command with sudo
.
However I don't see a practical reason for doing what you want. In most cases you want to leave volume's permissions or even ownership alone. As always, be careful with what you do when using sudo
.