Can't chmod or chgrp with sudo to a ntfs disk
I read the answer by Chris Coulson on 2008-07-12: to a similar question and didn't quite follow his example as an answer to the problem.
My situation, I took my Windows 2000 system with two NTFS formated hard drives. I loaded ubuntu on the primary (C) drive. It found and mounted the second disk by itself. Unfortunately all my directories and files are only readable. I can't edit anything. So, having come form a Sun Solaris background I try switching to root user, but that door is welded shut. Ok I look it up on the help lines and learn about sudo. Fine, I open a terminal and try out sudo. Seems to work till I get to the point I try chmod or chgrp on the files on the second disk. Using the -c option i get a report of the command and it shows it to be changing the files and directories from root to my user. Lies, all lies, nothing was actually changed.
What I want is for the files and directories to be owned by my user, not root. I don't care who mounts it as long as I can read and write to what is already there, and create new files and directories owned by me.
Can a user with administrator authority change the ownership of files on a mounted NTFS drive?
Never had this issue with Solaris, and I was always able to be the root user.
TIA
Rich G
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