Permission on new HDD

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I have a new HDD and I need to give it permission but I forgot the command. I think it was, “sudo chown $USER:$USER /path/to/mount” is that right?

Without it, I can’t write to it.

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Hello and welcome,

You are good to go, but is it ext4 format or something else?

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The drive is ext4.

Can you also say what the $USER is. Is it a variable of the owners username?

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Yes, $USER will take the actual username and group and use it for that command, hence changing the ownership to it.

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Ah excellent. I think i’ll be saving this page.

Thanks.