File Permission Problems

[MrStiggy]

Hello,

I recently upgraded the Motherboard and CPU on my linux box. The previous box was running SuSe11.2 and the new one is running 11.2.

When I upgraded the system I transferred 5 hard drives from the old box. The old drives are formatted with Reiser.

For some reason, I think it copied over the old UIDs from the previous machine. Now I can not chmod or chown any of the files as it returns "Permission Denied, Read Only" The drives are not mounted read only.

How can I take ownership of these files to change the permissions?

Thanks

[dmk06]

Have you tried it as root?

$su
#chown <username> <filename>

<username> is the user you want to change ownership to
<filename> is the path to the file & filename eg: /home/username/file-to-chown
use -R for recursive (* and . work with this to save time)

chown - Change file ownership

[MrStiggy]

yes, I have tried as root and it is not mounted r/o

[dmk06]

looks like this will work:
(su instead of sudo)

chown and chmod will work fine after this:
1. Check Your user's id (UID). For the example, mine is 1000 and used in 3.
2. Go to terminal and with root access edit /etc/fstab
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
3. Paste this utf8,umask=0000,uid=1000,gid=1000 in the <options> section, save and exit
4. In the terminal: sudo umount -a
5. In the terminal: sudo mount -a

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