Chown:Operation not permitted as root

[caizizuofang]

I installed Greyhole UI and also attached an external hard drive. I continuously found the greyhole seems like not moving contents from LZ to pooled drive. Then I tried Chown -R username:users /var/hda/files/drives/ehd1 (this is my volume name for external hard drive). The system getting "operation not permitted" error for root user.
I also did research and speculate maybe the filesystem format causes this issue.

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df -T

I got the filesystem format of external hard drive is vfat.

/dev/sdb1 vfat 976513888 371839008 604674880 39% /var/hda/files/drives/ehd1

Is this possible the root issue for bother greyhole staggering process and Chown failure?

Two alternatives came up in my mind.
1) Still keep using external hard drive. But change format vfat to others like ext4. But I don't want to lose any existing files.
2) Add another internal drive. However, looks like to add another hard drive is not easy task. Lots of tweaks need be done for the prep.
Please advise me the best practice. Thanks.

[bigfoot65]

If you are manipulating files directly on the HDA, you need to follow the guidance for installing the mount_shares_locally service.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Mount_Shares_Locally