Need Help Changing Owner of External HArd Drive

Posted by Thomas Ballew on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Thomas Ballew
Published on 2012-11-07T16:41:55Z Indexed on 2012/11/07 17:17 UTC
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My understanding of code is about zero. I can open a terminal window, and type commands that are given to me, but that's about it. If someone can help me with this question, and explain at a level I'm likely to understand, thanks. If not, thanks anyway.

I have an external hard drive with two partitions. I bought this drive when my operating system was Apple, 10.5 or so, and it was formatted as HFS+ with that system. Now, connecting the HD to my Linux system, I can read files, but I have about 1.5 TB of space that I can't use, because I am not the owner of the file, so can't write to the HD.

Short of reformatting the HD, is there a way for me to set the permissions for the HD so I can write to it?

Again, thank you.

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