I just noticed I don’t have privileges to my external ssd it says only root can make changes, I wanted to make a folder and the create new option is grayed out… how do I change it so that I can use it without being root? I’m surprised I can’t make changes since I used timeshift on it a few days ago …

Take ownership of that partition if is any linux filesystem: ext4, ext3, ext2 or btrfs, xfs, zfs. some like: sudo chown -R $USER:%USER /run/media/youruser/mountpoint This also should help [image] [Tutorial] Understanding and working with UNIX filesystems and permissions Tutorials …

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