Hello there, Suddenly, I don’t have permissions to edit anything in my eternal drives that I mounted before and added them to fstab file. I tried this option sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/drive_name But nothing happened. Still, the 2 drives are set to root permissions. This is my device info ht…

[image] MW_J97: I changed the fstab as you said and entered this above command, but it gives me this: Remounting is not supported at present. You have to umount volume and then mount it once again. Remounting is not supported at present. You have to umount volume and then mount it once again. A…

Aragorn 19 August 2023 11:35 3

[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 …

[Tutorial] Working with additional 'drives' Tutorials

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ 1. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Windows started its life as a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS, a 16-bit single-user, single-tasking operating system that in turn originated as 86DOS, an unauthorized 16-bit rewrite (by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer) of Digital Research’s originally 8-bit CP/M operating system. Both CP/M and MS-DOS were at the time developed for computers that did not support any other storage media than floppy disks. Considering this legacy, Microsof…

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