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I created lots of files and folder on a drive, formatted as ext4, on a machine with user name theuser. By default all files and folder are owned by that user and group. Now i change to use that drive on another machine with different user name. I can't access those files anymore. How can i access them without using chown and chgrp?

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    The username doesn't matter, the user ID does. Either you'll have to change the ownership of your files, or change your UID, or use a container to get a different UID.
    – muru
    Commented Jul 19, 2023 at 0:04

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