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  • /dev/sda is the whole raw disk - you typically don’t want to directly interact with /dev/sda, unless you are partitioning or overwriting it. There are a few layers between that device and the files:

    • raw disk - /dev/sda
    • disk partition - /dev/sda1
    • luks container - when unlocked, mapped to /dev/mapper/{name}
    • ext4 filesystem inside the luks container, mounted somewhere like /mnt, /media, etc

    You’ll need to find where that ext4 filesystem is mounted, and run the chown command on that. You can run lsblkand see a tree of the above hierarchy, with the ext4 filesystem’s mountpount shown in the right-hand column.