[vox-tech] chown and chgrp problems

[Robert G. Scofield]

I'm having problems with chown and chgrp.  I've just configured /etc/fstab so that the Windows partition on this dual boot machine will automatically mount when I start Linux.  I want to be able to efficiently edit documents on the Windows partition with WordPerfect 8 for Linux.  When I try to do this I get a message that says that to edit my documents I have to save them under a new name because the Windows documents are read only.

Most of the files I'm interested in are in a Windows folder called "MyFiles."   I go to /mnt/vfat to change the group and ownership of MyFiles and the files therein.  My username and my group name is "bob."  If I type:  "chown bob MyFiles" (without the quotation marks), I get this message:

chown: MyFiles: Operation not permitted

Note that I am logged in as su when I do this.  If I type "chgrp bob MyFiles" I get this message:

chgrp: you are not a member of group `bob': Operation not permitted

So what am I supposed to do in order to change the group and ownership of the files in MyFiles?

Thank you.

Bob
 
 

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Robert G. Scofield
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