Weird disk behavior that says nothing good

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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How would you explain that ?

~/essai [SIGINT]> sudo chown #NOT_FUNNY_NAME!# * -R
CONFIG/chromium/chrome_shutdown_ms.txt': Opération non permise
chown: modification du propriétaire de 'CONFIG/chromium/DesktopSharingHub/20211020.1/_metadata': Opération non permise
chown: modification du propriétaire de 'CONFIG/chromium/DesktopSharingHub/20211020.1': Opération non permise
chown: modification du propriétaire de 'CONFIG/chromium/DesktopSharingHub': Opération non permise
************lots more of the same, that says: modification of the file owner is not allowed**************

Of course I’m the admin, and the disk is mounted in read/write
This is my backup disk…
I would be willing to try and repair that disk, if someone can help.
I think the easer would be to clone it and format it in ext4, but I wish to avoid that.

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Is that an ntfs/fat/exfat volume?

If so, you can’t change permissions on those files. The filesystem doesn’t support it.

You change permissions/owners by settings mount options but that means all files on that partition will have the same permissions.

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wtf?

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That moment when a Nazi war criminal accidently outed themselves on a public Linux forum. . .

I’m not gonna lie, that’s a bit scary.

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Closed pending review…

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