I want to fix permissions on another disk with chown. Set the permissions to a user which does not exist on the system which is currently running.

Does that work without adding the user?

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Use the numerical UID/GID instead of the user/group name.

You can find the UID/GID on the system the disk belongs to by using

 id some_username

or

ls -ln some_file

where some_file is a file that belongs to user you are looking for

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