if the provisioning directory is mounted before this method is called, and the mounted filesystem is of a type that doesn't support chown (e.g. vmhgfs for vmware or hfs) then this method will fail.
if the provisioning directory is mounted before this method is called, and the mounted filesystem is of a type that doesn't support chown (e.g. vmhgfs for vmware or hfs) then this method will fail.