chown

[Kenneth Porter]

--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.