Re: Changing Owner on a backup drive

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On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 14
> 
> I have a backup drive at sdb1 a  Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive 
> that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner was 
> Michael , but after upgrade it is now owned by root. all the backup 
> files are Linux files.
> 
> The drive is mounted at /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup from /etc/fstab  and is 
> only readable by Michael.
> 
> How do I change the owner back to Michael , the chown command is not 
> permitted.
> 
> 

Chown can't be done as root?
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