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[Help] Bulk chmod when migrating from NTFS (self.linux)

submitted 2 weeks ago by AntY to c/[email protected]

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At long last I'm finally switching operating system for my gaming PC. I have a lot of photos and such saved that have been moved from an NTFS drive. Is there any tool out there to help me fix the permissions of these files according to file type in bulk?

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[–] FauxLiving 11 points 2 weeks ago

Your things may be owned by root and have unusual permissions.

So, to make your NTFS drive be owned by your user and group and to set the permissions you can:

# Change owner to user:user
sudo chown -R username:group your_directory

# Change permissions to default (typically 755 for directories and 644 for files)

# For directories
find your_directory -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

 #files
find your_directory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;