Why I can't change permission of any files which are located on other partitions like sda2,sda3,sda4 and so on.. When I change it from properties it's immediately change again to it's previous setting.. When I tried with nautilus... it shows
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Purnendu Nath
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did you try chmod – Anıl Karaağaç Nov 21 '14 at 12:54
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Yes !! But same... – Purnendu Nath Nov 21 '14 at 12:58
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2What is the filesystem type on the devices (not all filesystems support Unix-style permissions)? How are they mounted? – steeldriver Nov 21 '14 at 13:01
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It's NTFS and automatically mounted.. – Purnendu Nath Nov 21 '14 at 13:08
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check that http://askubuntu.com/a/11843/179030 – Anıl Karaağaç Nov 21 '14 at 13:09
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This is probably because you don't have sufficient privileges to change the permissions in the first place.
Try pressing Alt+F2 and then entering gksudo nautilus
. Once you've entered your password, the file browser (nautilus
) should launch, and you should be able to change those permissions.
You can also do this from the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running the chown
command.
Eg: sudo chown [USER]:[USER] /media/USER/FOLDER/FILE

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@PriyankaNath I believe the answer linked to by Anıl Karaağaç here should solve your problem. Since the partition is an NTFS partition, the normal Unix/Linux file permissions don't apply, since it's a Windows filesystem. – RPiAwesomeness Nov 21 '14 at 13:42