[ubuntu] Error changing owner

[Jon Dixon]

On 5/4/05, lluishc <lluishc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have defined a new FAT32 partition in my HD to share docs between
> ubuntu and windows. Since all documents i've put there (from inside
> windows) have root as user, i tried to change it to my user, to allow
> me to edit them.
> The command to do it, if i'm not wrong, is
> 
> chown -R user /data
>

Try 'sudo chown -R user /data'
 
> where user is my ubuntu user and /data is the new partition. But it
> returns a "operation not permitted" message, and it does nothing.
> What am i doing wrong??
> 

Root owns the files, that's all.

HTH,

Jon

> thnx in advance
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