Root unable to change ownership and modify permissions

[M Thomason]

On 20/04/2010 06:55, I Am Me wrote:
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> ts a NTFS formatted partition on my on-board 80 GB HDD
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> iamme at thishost\~>df -h | grep Andrew
> /dev/sdb5              35G   24G   12G  68% /media/Andrew
> iamme at thishost\~>
> iamme at thishost\~>mount -l | grep Andrew
> /dev/sdb5 on /media/Andrew type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) [Andrew]
> iamme at thishost\~>
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That'll be why, AFAIK you can't change ownership of files on NTFS 
partitions, as they lack anywhere to store the ownership information -  
it just defaults to root.  You can only change the defaults for the 
entire mount to a different user/permission mask, not individual files 
or directories as it's a "foreign" (non-unix) filesystem mounted for 
compatibility purposes only.

This link may be of help:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#how_do_i_change_the_permissions_of_a_mounted_ntfs_volume