Hello everyone,
I needed to reformat my USB hard drive and used gparted to do this. The owner is now root. I myself would like to be the owner with read and write permissions. I can’t manage to change that!
What filesystem did you create on your USB hdd ?
I created ext4
Gparted hast nothing to do with this.
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The owner of a file on a ext4 filesystem is set, when the file is created.
So create any directory / file on it, then change the owner to yourself. -
The owner of the “root=/” of your ext4 filesystem is the owner of its mountpoint
So change the ownership of the mountpoint to yourself
There is a [HowTo] about this, but i did not find it yet.
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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER [path/to/device]
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It doesn’t work. I did:
sudo chown -R root:micha /run/media/micha/
Wrong Command should be sudo chown -R micha:micha /run/media/micha/
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