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External disk access

Asked by Rob Frerejean

Hi,

I did format my new external hdd with ext4. But only root can access it. How can I change it to me?

I tried sudo nautilus and change the right in there, but that did not work.

Rob

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Michael Fletcher (mikefletcher) said : 		#1

Hi.

You were on the right track with 'sudo nautilus'. There was likely a mistake with the options.

Go to your drive and open up the properties. Then right click and choose permissions. Make sure that you change
 * the owner to your user id.
 * the first Folder Access should be 'Create and Delete Files'
 * the first File Access should be 'Read and Write'
 * the group to your user id.
 * then remaining options don't matter.
 * Click on Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files.

If you are still having problems then please go to a terminal and type in the command 'ls -l /media' and paste the output to this question.

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Rob Frerejean (hffrerejean) said : 		#2

It did not work. So I did reboot and there it was. I am now the owner of the disk.

Thankx.