* John McMillan ([email protected]) [20100825 19:06]: > to which I receive the following confirmation - > changed ownership of `/media/C:/Documents and Settings/John/My > Documents/Word/John/Augustine.doc' to john:john
Looks like this is a DOS/WIN partition, i.e. vfat or ntfs. These file systems don't know of unix style access rights. Owning user are group are set via mount options (see 'man 8 mount') and can't be changed by chown. This is a shortcoming of the file system, not of chown. Philipp
