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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:50:38+00:00

I am currently using debian 6 squeeze. I would like to change the owner

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I am currently using debian 6 squeeze. I would like to change the owner of a floder in my usb key.
So I did :
chown -R www-data /media/USB/myfolder/myfile

I got this message :

chown: changing ownership of `/media/USB/myfolder/myfile’: Operation not permitted

I googled it, indeed my partition is a vfat and then I did :
vim /etc/fstab

Then I add at the end of the file (44 is the uid of www-data):
default,utf8,umask=077,uid=44,gid=44

I rebooted and I got the same error as in the beggining

chown: changing ownership of /media/USB/myfolder/myfile': Operation not permitted

Then I replaced the line in /etc/fstab by
default,utf8,umask=077,uid=0,gid=0

I got the same problem after rebooting

Can anyone help me,
Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    With default,utf8,umask=077,uid=44,gid=44 this in your FSTAB, the files should be owned by www-data. The ownership of files on mounted FAT partition is set by the mount command, and can’t be changed after that; the partition itself can’t record any changes to ownership.

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