As root I cannot change ownership of a directory that root owns. This is the directory: linux:/home/myhome # cat /etc/fstab | grep hda4 /dev/hda4 /home/myhome/Windows vfat defaults 0 0 This is what happens: linux:/home/myhome # chown -v myuser /home/myhome/Windows chown: changing ownership of `/home/myhome/Windows': Operation not permitted failed to change ownership of `/home/myhome/Windows' to myuser Why is this operation not permitted?? Before I got to this point I tried to use mount to mount this file system but mount said the filesystem (hda4) didn't exist. Yet Yast was able to mount it but, I can't change the owner. Maybe mount not finding hda4 is related to not being able to change owner. How can I fix this? Thanks, Jerome