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    Question Could not access contents of a mounted partition

    I had my hard disk partitioned as below:-

    Size Label Mount point File system
    52 GB Multimedia /MM ntfs
    52 GB Backup /ABackup ntfs
    52 GB Extras /Extras ext4
    27 GB root / ext4
    60 GB home /home ext4

    The problem is that I cannot access the /MM and contents. I tried Properties > Permissions and changed applied the changes to subfolders and contents too. Now I can access /MM but not the contents. All are marked with a lock logo. There are numerous folders/files. Changing the permissions individually is a hectic work.

    Is it possible to do it in a command line/script? And what is the reason for the lock up?

    Thanks for any help
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    Re: Could not access contents of a mounted partition

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    Re: Could not access contents of a mounted partition

    Code:
    sudo chmod -R 0775 /MM
    If that doesn't work it may be a ownership problem, try
    Code:
    sudo chown -R username:groupname /MM

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    Re: Could not access contents of a mounted partition

    Don't know what the lockup is, becuase I am having a very similar problem with permissions.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1371831

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    Re: Could not access contents of a mounted partition

    sudo chown -R username:groupname /MM
    It worked. Thank you very much.
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