SuSE 10.1 and Permissions

[Clayton Stapleton]

I have SuSE 10.1 on a two hard drive, multi-boot system. Windows is on the hda drive and Linux is on the hdb drive. Both drives are 80GB. There are six partitions on the B drive. hdb1 is Sabayon Linux 3.0, hdb2 is sway, hdb3 is Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, hdb4 is extented, hdb5 is SuSE Linux 10.1, hdb6 is free to use as needed. How is it possible to change the permissions for hdb6 from user:root and group:root to clay and users so that I can have access to it. I tried as root to change the permissions and had no feedback that it would not except the changes. After the change I  looked at KDE's media after restarting the system and it still has the permissions as root.
This is the way I change the permissions as root:
	chown clay /dev/hdb6
	chgrp users /dev/hdb6
So why was it not accepted?

Thanks,
Clay