Creating Files in Mounted Drive Requires sudo? Permissions problems

[babadoctor]

Example: mounted my hard drive on /media/2TB/

 

trying to use mkdir results in: 

 

 

ok lets create a file with sudo, fine

 

now i take ownership of said file using said command

 

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER aptpackages.txt

 

 

ok permissions should be good too, it's essentially chmod 777

 

cool and good, i have ownership now, now i can delete it--

 

i cant without sudo??????????????????????????

 

why?

It makes no sense.

 

how can i make it so i can edit and delete it without sudo inside of the hard drive?

 

 

[jj9987]

Check your folder permissions, where the file lies.

[SupaKomputa]

Only do -R (recursive) on folders not individual files.

[Nayr438]

The correct command is chown user:group file and group isn't needed unless its for a multi user setup.

 

sudo chown -R $USER /media/2TB/

Will give you ownership over the entire directory.

 

sudo chown $USER aptpackages.txt

will only give you ownership of aptpackages.txt

 

If neither of those work, then the drive is mounted in read only and you will need to remount it.

fdisk -l to find the drive

mkdir /path/where/you/want/to/mount

sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/pathtodrive /yournewdirectory

chown -R $USER /yournewdirectory

 

 

[babadoctor]

5 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

The correct command is chown user:group file and group isn't needed unless its for a multi user setup.

 

sudo chown -R $USER /media/2TB/

Will give you ownership over the entire directory.

 

sudo chown $USER aptpackages.txt

will only give you ownership of aptpackages.txt

 

If neither of those work, then the drive is mounted in read only and you will need to remount it.

fdisk -l to find the drive

mkdir /path/where/you/want/to/mount

sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/pathtodrive /yournewdirectory

chown -R $USER /yournewdirectory

 

 

Well, it's silly that I need to take ownership of the drive after mounting it, but it fixed apparently. 

 

Thank you