Operation not permitted chown

1. 24. 183; The chown command in Linux enables you to change the user and group ownership of a file or directory. Learn to use chown with some practical examples. Operation not permitted. Now lets see how to use the chown command with examples. Heres the example set I am going to use. openwrt belkin.

Ownership shouldnt matter, usually, except on particular files. Not the entire drive. Besides, if the OS lists the owner as root, you probably want to leave it that way. level 1. michaelpaoli. 183; 4 mo. ago. Uhm . would be quite useful if you'd provided the specific commands you ran, and their outputdiagnostics. Posted 4 years ago by. HaraldS. Add a Comment. I'm seeing this as well with a fresh install of 10.13 (17A315i) in a VM with an APFS root filesytem Michaels-Mac sudo chown mike usrlocal chown usrlocal Operation not permitted Michaels-Mac ls -lO usr total 0 drwxr-xr-x 975 root wheel restricted 31200 2 Aug 0156 bin drwxr-xr-x 262.

Thanks all for your kind assistance. Sounds like my best course of action is to move all the files onto the 3TB drive you might have noticed from the code posted and just blow everything out of the existing drive and start fresh.

It will not run because there is a permissions issue. When I run brew doctor, I get the following message; run the following command to fix permissions "sudo chown -R (whoami) usrlocal" When I try to run the chown , I am getting the following error; " chown usrlocal Operation not permitted " Bueller. 1 day ago &183; core.

Thanks all for your kind assistance. Sounds like my best course of action is to move all the files onto the 3TB drive you might have noticed from the code posted and just blow everything out of the existing drive and start fresh.