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Old 07-07-2016, 06:31 PM   #1
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Change permissions on partition

I need to change permissions on my sda1 partition so I can copy,move,edit any files on that partition.

My Mint is on another partition.

How do I do that ?

I tried chown 777.
 
Old 07-07-2016, 08:01 PM   #2
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I just found nemo.

Root file manager.
 
Old 07-19-2016, 05:49 PM   #3
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what you should have tried was

chmod ugo+rw -R
 
Old 07-19-2016, 05:55 PM   #4
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Thanks, I went to Ubuntu-Mate.
 
  


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