Subject: bug#6913: change file ownership/permissions from root to user fail even with success confirmation

From: Philipp Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:23:07 +0200

* John McMillan ([email-masked]) [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