On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: <*] <*]> Hi, <*]> maybe it is a stupid question, but when I want to change the owner of my <*]> windows partitions or change permissions, it doesn't work. <*]> It work fine with other files. <*]> What do I do wrong? <*] <*]"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" (Homer Simpson) <*] <*]They are Windows/Dos files. The concepts of owner and permissions <*]don't apply. Hi, You have to change the uid and/or gid of the whole partition before changing the permissions. Changing the gid of your vfat partition will give access to users in this group. My fstab look like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat defaults,gid=0,umask=007 You could change it all at the command line too, adding options to the mount command (man mount to find more infos). Good luck /NB ________________ Nicolas Beaulieu Teamwork is essential: it allows you to blame someone else. _________________