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I have an external drive mounted at /mnt/xbox: enter image description here

However I cannot change the permissions of a folder.

hutber@hutber:/mnt/xbox$ ll
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root         144 Aug 10 12:05  Linux/
hutber@hutber:/mnt/xbox$ sudo chown -R hutber:hutber Linux/
hutber@hutber:/mnt/xbox$ ll
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root         144 Aug 10 12:05  Linux/

How can I take ownership of this drive?

Jamie Hutber
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    With Windows file systems Linux will set ownership and permissions at mount, and it cannot be changed. But you can unmount and mount again with other permissions. See this link. – sudodus Aug 10 '20 at 11:21
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    Thanks very much. I wonder if we should either mark this as a duplicate or nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,rw,uid=1000,dmask=007,fmask=117 add a answer for it? The above worked, :) – Jamie Hutber Aug 10 '20 at 11:38
  • Thanks for sharing your solution :-) If you wish, you can 'answer your own question' and link for more details to my answer (the link in my comment above), if you wish I can write that answer, and if you wish I can vote for marking your question as a duplicate. You decide :-) – sudodus Aug 10 '20 at 12:32

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