I wanted to have a partition that can be accessed easily by both Windows and Zorin, so I formatted a part of the new 2T drive I installed as exFAT in Windows (I thought that would be a better idea than formatting it as NTFS). I can see its contents, even mount it, but I can't modify anything on it …

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Taking ownership of exFAT drive?

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Aravisian June 11, 2022, 6:12am 4

oh... -facepalm-
Here is your issue. I had to actually READ the O.P.

The exFAT FS does not support file ownership operations.

Couple of things that are not running the way I want