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removable hdd permissions

Asked by mickeyd1965

Hi,
I am using ubuntu 9.04 and have a HDD dock. I have created an EXT4 partition. I tried to write to the drive. It told me that root was the owner and that i did not have permission. How do i change the permission of this external HDD. Did i miss a step when creating the partition?

thank you.
Lance

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Cristi Nistor (cristi-nistor) said : 		#1

You can change the owner of the media device by using the following command in a terminal:

sudo chown -R yourusername /media/mountpoint

Using sudo fdisk -l will list the devices as they are mounted and you'll see your external HDD by it's device name (something like /dev/hdb) and if your username is john you should type the command: "sudo chown -R john /dev/hdb" and you'll have read/write access to that device.

Good luck.

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mickeyd1965 (mickeyd1965) said : 		#2

that did the job.
thanks