chown

[Liloulinx]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:41 AM +0200 Liloulinx 
> <alilou_linux at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Evry time when I create a directory, automaticaly the system make the
>> root as the owner of this directory. When I (the user or the root) 
>> try to
>> change its owner (by using the chown commande), the answer of the system
>> is "not allowed Operation".
>> Where is the problem? is there a bad parameter...
>
>
> What filesystem are you doing this on? For some kinds of filesystem, 
> the whole filesystem is owned by the user configured at mount time.
>
>
it's a VFAT system.
Yes it's true in /home/my_directory I can create a directory and I'm the 
owner, but when I move it to the other partition, it became 
automatically the property of root (the owner)!! Is there solution to 
this???