chown & chgrp being antisocial

[Baph2G]

Im try to change the group and user ownership of a mounted vfat partition. Which should be basic but @ the moment it's doing my head in :confused:

This is what im doing:
chown -R USER /mnt/FILE
and the same for chgrp but everytime I do this it throws up the permission denied error msg :mad:

I've tried doing it in root and as the user I want to change the permission to, but nuttin seems 2 b work,.

Can some1 enlighten my ignorance :confused:

Thanks in advance :)

[Baph2G]

that wasn't spozed to happen :eek:

[bugfix]

Are you trying to do it on files in a DOS partition? That won't bloody work! :D

I had the same problem a few days ago and completly missed the obvious.

[Baph2G]

it's a Vfat partition, I'm sure I've changed the ownership before, and if it won't work, what's the alternative I need the partition to be writable to MS and RH7, it just seems silly that it is owned by root and no one else can add to it :confused:

[MBMarduk]

Make sure fstab says 'users' instead of 'user' (not really, but you never know)

and do 'chown <USER>.<GROUP> <DIRECTORY>'
for example, if I wanted to change my /winC directory: 'chown metalhed.users /winC' and change the permissions accordingly

[Baph2G]

that's exactly what I tried but it still tells me that I don't have the permission :( or with chgrp tells me that im not a member of the group? :confused:

what makes it worse is that im root when making the changes :(