Linux Partition Access Issue

[Guest]

So I formatted my Linux partition of my storage drive for Linux with both Fedora and Ubuntu and I'm getting a strange issue. It's saying that I don't have permission to access it after rebooting. I don't understand how/why this is happening. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

chown -R USERNAME FOLDERDIR

 

do this in the terminal, as root

 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

chown -R USERNAME FOLDERDIR

 

do this in the terminal, as root

 

What does that do?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, IAmLamp said:

What does that do?

change the owner of those files to your user account so you can use them.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

change the owner of those files to your user account so you can use them.

Okay, is there a more natural solution/understand as to why this is happening? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, IAmLamp said:

Okay, is there a more natural solution/understand as to why this is happening? 

Did it suddenly change?

 

Is the hdd good?

 

What filesystem?

 

This is the natural solution to changing permissions.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Did it suddenly change?

 

Is the hdd good?

 

What filesystem?

 

This is the natural solution to changing permissions.

HDD is fine, file system is standard Linux ext4 (nothing complicated), it changed with a reboot, it might have changed when I removed the live USB but I'm not sure 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, IAmLamp said:

HDD is fine, file system is standard Linux ext4 (nothing complicated), it changed with a reboot, it might have changed when I removed the live USB but I'm not sure 

run ls -l on the dir, what user own the file and what permissions.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

run ls -l on the dir, what user own the file and what permissions.

I don't know what that is, how would I be able to check the owner and what the permissions are for the partition? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, IAmLamp said:

I don't know what that is, how would I be able to check the owner and what the permissions are for the partition? 

Open termianl, cd to the dir that you have permissions issues in, then run ls -l