Hi Paul,

   I hate to even ask because they are the bane of my existence, but have
you checked ACLs just in case they are denying access somehow?  Especially
at a directory level?  (Lord, but I hate those sneaky little buggers...)

   Has a user been defined to match the UID of the file owner from the
source system?  If not, maybe "chown -R 0:0 /mount/point" to get everything
owned by root, and a group of root, at least?  I claim to know absolutely
nothing about Chrome OS, so I have no idea how it deals with file access
when ownership of a file can't be traced back to a valid user name.

   Less likely to be an issue, but have you done a "ls -ld /mount/point" to
see permissions on the mounted filesystem's mount point?  Back when I
taught the troubleshooting class for Sun Microsystems, one of the problems
we gave students was doing "chmod 0000 /", resulting in only the root user
being able to log in.  No other non-root users could log into the system.
Troubleshooting as root, students would check perms on /etc, /home, /usr,
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and the like; but only rarely would someone think
to do "ls -ld /" to look at permissions there without a little nudge from
the old instructor.  If you can't read / - well then you can't read
anything anywhere below it either...

   I'm sorry that I could not be of any more help.  Best of luck to you!

Dan

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:

> So... I've got an external drive I used to copy files from my Linux
> computer. The partition is ext4.
>
> Some directories I can access on the Chromebook, but others I can't.
>
> I tried changing all the directory permissions to 0777 and all the file
> permissions to 0666 on the problematic directories/files, but I am still
> getting "Your file couldn’t be accessedIt may have been moved, edited, or
> deleted.
> ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND"
>
> Everything I've found online points to not being able to mount the whole
> partition. But it is mounting, and other directories (which were close if
> not identical permissions) I can read just fine.
>
> I know Chrome OS is a bit out of scope, but hoping someone has some idea
> what else may be wrong.
>
> ---Paul.
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