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Originally Posted by rknichols
By default, the root of the filesystem will be owned by root and writable only by root. While the drive is mounted, you need to use chown to change the ownership of the directory at that mount point to your ID. You will need to do that as root, either via sudo or from a root shell.
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Got it to work before seeing this. What I did was just right clicked my user file and did "open as root", and then edited the properties from there (just changed the owner to myself). Is that basically the same thing? I also clicked apply permissions to enclosed files even though it was an empty folder - just in case.
Before doing that, I tried following this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
The thing that really didnt make a lot of sense was making a mount point somewhere else besdies where hard drives normally are put in linux mint. Like - the drive was already there and showing up - why would I want a different mount point? I mean -doesnt it already have a mount point by formatting in gparted?