Recently used KDE Partition manager to install a new hard drive into my computer. Now, truth be told, I couldn’t even create folders on my install drive either. The drives are properly formatted (ext4) and mounted. But when I try to make folders on either drive I get an error back telling me that th…

Linux and Ext filesystem format are permissions-based. Likely you dont have the rights as a random regular using to write to the root of this formatted drive. With dolphin open to the drive right-click and select “Open Terminal Here” We can look at the permissions here: ls -l -a . You will prob…

I tried what you suggested, still can’t place folders. Here’s a log of what I did- Experimented a bit at the end to see if I was doing it wrong. ls -l -a .  ✔ total 164 drwx------ 18 alexanderd alexanderd 4096 …

[image] Dr_Dio: ls -l -a .  ✔ total 164 drwx------ 18 alexanderd alexanderd 4096 Feb 21 22:35 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 28 02:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 alexanderd alexanderd 21 Nov 23 10:24 …

[image] cscs: ls -l -a . Thank you very much. I’ll keep this thread in my bookmarks in case I need it again.

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Aragorn 22 February 2024 10:37 5

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