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How to change ownership for an external HDD?

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I've got an external HDD (640 GB), with file system FAT32. I want to change the ownership of it from root (default) to angstrem (my username). The system is mounted to /media/exthdd. I try to do that by a command:

sudo chown -vR angstrem:angstrem /media/exthdd

and after that the system gives me an error:

chown: changing ownership of `/media/exthdd': Operation not permitted

If anybody knows, please tell me, how to change ownership of that HDD?

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answered 3 Years ago tresein · Accepted Answer

FAT doesn't support file ownership, so you need to specify the owner when you mount the device. You can do this by adding uid and gid options to your mount command.