Hi,
I would like to change the owner of a directory on the sdcard
/sdcard/aDirectory
I have a terminal installed on my Android 10 (LineageOS 17)
com.android.terminal
sudo is not present so I use su and it works.
su
#Terminal was granted Superuser rights
cd /sdcard
chown 10:10 aDirectory
#I don't get any error message.
stat aDirectory
#Uid (0/root)
So the owner stay root no matter what I’m doing, any ideas ?
Android users all kinds of overlays over the sdcard directory. This is part of how it enforces storage access for apps. There’s probably a way to override these settings, but they sure as hell aren’t easy.
There’s also another layer of permissions somewhere seeing as I can’t access certain files on /sdcard that were created by the recovery. I assume it’s an selinux context issue (it always is).
Changing ownership should work on real SD cards with normal storage, but it won’t for the emulated internal /sdcard.
