I have some recovered data from a Mac OS HSF+ (I guess) volume that was dropped onto an EXT2 formatted volume, and now that I mounted the latter in OS X using ext2fs, I cannot get the file perms to change to anything other than what they are. I don't have the same users or usernames on my system, and would like to avoid creating said users and groups.

thanks for the help in advance,

-Tim

Why can not you chown everything (from root) to your user (administrator, root whatever)?