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I have tried running:

sudo chown dendy /mnt/storage1/

which returns:

chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/storage1/': Operation not permitted

I have also tried:

sudo chmod 777 /mnt/storage1/

which does not return any errors, however, when I check the folder permissions, it still shows root for the owner and group.

What can I do to allow my user, "dendy", to be able to write files to and read from these directories?

BeastOfCaerbannog
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    What format is storage1? Post this: sudo parted -l. If NTFS or FAT32, then Windows formats do not support Linux ownership & permissions. Those are set for entire partition by how you mount partition. – oldfred Aug 07 '21 at 23:40
  • Explore your permission/ownership problems with https://github.com/waltinator/pathlld. A bash script to answer "Why can't I Read/Write that file?". – waltinator Aug 08 '21 at 00:23
  • Well, the full output seems to exceed the maximum character length for a reply by a few thousand characters but I do see most of these drives are ntfs although I do have some that are just blank for that section. Am I able to mount them differently? I was able to write to them previously and I haven't changed the formatting of these external drives. – Dendy Aug 08 '21 at 01:32
  • @Dendy You can always post the output as an edit. – Paul Aug 08 '21 at 13:49

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