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I have 5 internal drives and 3 external.

I would like the internal drive's files to be owned by my default user hutber

I have tried to chown them with sudo as seen here:

It looks successful, however

I am unsure if its possible to change, but here is my mount options for the drive

And just an overview of all drivers. With the drive in question on display.

Is this drive mapped in /etc/fstab? If so, you can modify the options there, this "nosuid" option need to be removed as others have pointed, and you can also add "gid=ownerGroupID, uid=ownerID" to the options list in order to have the files on the drive explicitly mapped to particular uid/gid and these be further usable to you.

When you mount something, you mount a filesystem: Basically, a particular way to assign a number of disk blocks to some file name. A filesystem usually occupies one partition, and there may be several partitions on a harddisk.

Unix-centric filesystems (like ext2, ext3, ext4) implement the concept that every file "belongs" to a particular user (uid) or particular group (gid`).

Other filesystems (FAT, NTFS) may not implement this concept, or may have other ideas what constitutes a "user". In this case, Linux sometimes tries to map the "foreign" ownership and permissions to Linux ones, and sometimes it just assigns a particular user and group to all files.

So:

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  You can't just change ownership of all files of an ext-filesystem to a particular user using mount options. You can apply chown and/or chgrp to it, but in many cases this may not be a good idea, in particular for a filesystem that contains your Linux system files and programs.

  
  
  

  Therefore, don't do that. Instead, make sure your own files are created with you yourself as owner. Create new groups and add yourself to the groups if necessary. In short, just do some sane administration. "All files should be mine" doesn't work.

  
  


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  If you want to mount a "foreign" filesystem, you can, depending on the filesystem, supply the uid and gid mount options. See man mount for details.

  
  
  

  This works fine for reading, and for writing FAT-based filesystems, but I wouldn't recommend it for writing stuff to NTFS-based filesystems.

  
  


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  It's not important if the disk is internal or external. In fact, the disk isn't important at all, the type of the filesystem is. You didn't say which types of filesystem you have, or even which partitions you want to use.

  
  
  

  The only thing one can see from the information you gave is that one of them is NTFS (the "2 TB" one, not the "8 TB"), which doesn't mix well with Linux in the first place.

  
  

You get downvotes because it shows that you haven't understood basics about Linux, and are about to do things that will bite you in the long run. Don't do those things.

I suspect this is due to the nosuid option used for mounting, and that you are mounting as root (at bootup).

The mount man page states:

suid
 Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect.

nosuid
 Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect. (This seems safe, but is in fact rather unsafe if you have suidperl(1) installed.)

That said, with anything to do with disks, take backups and read manuals before you do anything. And if you do do anything, make sure you have a WORKING backup!

As others have suggested, it seems that the reason your file permission changes are not persisting may be because of compatibility issues between Linux and the NTFS file system (which is designed for use with Windows). There are a couple of pages here that describe some things you could try to get it to work:

Is NTFS under linux able to save a linux file, with its chown and chmod settings?

Any way of maintaining permissions when using NTFS mounted drive in Ubuntu?