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I've followed instructions here to set up a hdd partition for a new hard drive. How should I set the permissions on that folder such that when I work in it I don't have to use sudo?

I know that I could check answer to the general question "How do I change the permissions on some directory?" But I want to make sure I'm doing things right based on the context.

Alexander Soare
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  • You need to use chown to do this see the man page here – graham Apr 10 '21 at 15:37
  • Okay, so basically, just the normal chown thing. Nothing special about it because it's a mounted disk – Alexander Soare Apr 10 '21 at 15:39
  • Nope, not specifically. I used the command on an internal disk mounted via fstab in my 20.04 system I used sudo chown [name]:[name] /media/[mount_point]/storage. If my name was fred for example, that would translate to sudo chown fred:fred /media/fred/storage Then that took ownership of the drive for user fred. storage is the name of the drive. – graham Apr 10 '21 at 16:01
  • Telling us which remote procedure (RP) you "followed" doesn't help us help you for N reasons: 1) It's remote. Will the link exist tomorrow? 2) Reading the RP doesn't tell us how accurately you "followed" it. Did you suffer typos or missed lines? We have. 3) Reading the RP omits the error messages you got on your system. These error messages (and the commands that caused them) are key elements in any diagnosis. – waltinator Apr 10 '21 at 17:18
  • @waltinator I think the other commenter achieved a much more productive use of their time with less typing – Alexander Soare Apr 10 '21 at 17:23

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