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Change owner of hdd

Asked by Sergio

I add a HDD to my system, format and mount it. The problem is that the owner is root and i can access it.

I try with:

sudo chown -R sergio:sergio /dev/sdb1

but it dosesnt woks.

Thanks for the help

SG

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You dont chown block devices. You chown the mount pount you use to access it.

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Sergio (sgarciagh) said : 		#2

ok Thanks Andrew