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Can't change permission/ownership/group of external hard drive on Ubuntu

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Mar 15, 202686601 views
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I have an external hard drive connected to my Linux box. I wanted to setup a web server to access files on it, but the permission on all files and directories on the drive are for the owner which is my local login, and the group is the group. I need the files readable by the apache user, I was tryi…

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Fix for: Can't change permission/ownership/group of external hard drive on Ubuntu

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Check the filesystem type it's using first with : If it's mounted on for example you will see that in the far right column. You can see the filesystem type in the second column. If it's NTFS, you'll want NTFS-3G (probably already installed, if not t…

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