SIMPLE CHGRP Question...

[Nailz]

Now I feel like a total luser.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out why I can't change the ownership of an entire directory to a group... This should be really simple..

I have a mounted Windows 2000 partition (/mnt/win2000). The fstab entry is as follows:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000 vfat defaults 0 0

User and Group ownership is currently set to root. I have a 'poweruser' group that I have setup and I want to change the ownership to that group. Root is a member of poweruser. I'm entering the following command:

chgrp -R poweruser /mnt/win2000

I get the error message on each and every file and directory: Operation not permitted

What am I missing?

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$> cd /pub
$> more beer

[H. M. Murdock]

are you issuing the chgrp command as root? It may not let you if you are the user.

Murdock

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[Nailz]

Originally posted by H. M. Murdock:
are you issuing the chgrp command as root? It may not let you if you are the user.

Murdock


Yes... of course I'm running the command as root. I'm thinking it has to do with the vfat partition ?!? The Windows 2000 partition is FAT.

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$> cd /pub
$> more beer

[Unruly]

FAT partiions don't support permissions, nor setting of permissions... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif

[Nailz]

Then that brings me to my initial problem...

I installed VMWare (as root) and want to configure it to launch my existing Windows 2000 installation (instead of having to choose it on bootup instead of linux). If I try to configure it as my user account, it tells me that I don't have rights to partition... ???

Does this mean that I can only run VMWare as root? Or that I have to configure it as root and export/import the configuration file?