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I have an external drive that has only my user with read-write (all other groups as read-only).

So when I mount it on another computer, I can't write to it. Yet, even though I am the owner, I can't change permissions to read-write for all, even if I sudo chmod.

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00012a16

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               2  1953525167   976762583    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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  • @muru doesn't really solve the issue. changing the mount options only affects it on this computer (on which I already have write permissions), once I mount it on a different computer it's back to read-only. – o_o_o-- Nov 03 '14 at 01:39
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    @muru nevermind, problem was other computer was Mac and they don't write to NTFS. – o_o_o-- Nov 03 '14 at 01:45

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Ok, so the problem turned out to be that Macs can't write to NTFS, and the other computer was a Mac.

Solution: don't format drive to NTFS if being shared with a mac.

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