Hi all, I have a partition which is my HDD used for storage and backups. Recently it has become inaccessible withinin dolphin, and I can only cd in as root. I encountered this when first creating the partition but was able to resolve it quickly using chown/chmod. I checked and both the partition /d…

Aragorn 13 December 2021 08:19 2

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[Tutorial] Understanding and working with UNIX filesystems and permissions Tutorials

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Note: This post is meant as a tutorial. Please do not post on this thread regarding any problems you’re having with permissions, but start a new thread instead. Thank you. PREAMBLE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND If you are new to the world of GNU/Linux ─ and especially if you come from the Microsoft Windows ecosystem ─ then you will undoubtedly have already noticed that GNU/Linux handles permissions and storage volumes quite differently from what you might be used to …

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