06-01-2017, 12:36 AM
Alright, so last output was from USB with music MP3s on it and you say it's a FAT32 formatted USB. Confusing thing to me is that FAT32 doesn't recognize Linux permissions, so one would assume nothing on it should be owned by root. I've never done what you are doing -- manually mounting the USB on a mount point you made under /mnt -- so I'm just going to guess that because that mount point is owned by root the whole USB (including existing files) shows that way when mounted there. Continuing my guess, because FAT32 won't be able to interpret/set Linux permissions properly the chown command doesn't work. That's my theory at least.
What I'd suggest is to just delete those mount points and let the system mount USBs the way it normally does. (Make sure nothing is mounted to any of them before deleting.) Just plug in USB, open file manager and look for it in left column under "Devices", then just click on it to mount and access it. Mount point should end up being something like /media/username/usb-stick and you shouldn't have the problems you're experiencing now anymore.
What I'd suggest is to just delete those mount points and let the system mount USBs the way it normally does. (Make sure nothing is mounted to any of them before deleting.) Just plug in USB, open file manager and look for it in left column under "Devices", then just click on it to mount and access it. Mount point should end up being something like /media/username/usb-stick and you shouldn't have the problems you're experiencing now anymore.
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