LINUX Mint 20.3 does not mount/recognize Admin ownership after formatting new HDD

Carlos Australia · 05-12-2023, 07:24 AM

Hi everyone!

Please I need help with something weird that it seems to have a problem.
Here is what I did exactly as instructed here and in other forums:

1) I bought a new internal HDD Seagate 6TB to be used as secondary.
2) I formatted it with Gparted as ext4 and partitioned in 4
3) After that, I open Disks and did exactly as instructed on video link above to automatically mount and appear on interface/desktop.

Never had issues with previous HDD, but this time I found out the following:

a) I can see and open the partitions BUT I cannot edit them, paste on them, etc.
b) When I right click to paste inside (which is empty because is newly formatted) the "paste" option is clear colour, not available.
c) If I right click inside, above the (non-available) paste option it mentions: "Open as administrator". If I do it, only then I can work inside.
d) I repeated the entire formatting TWICE, still with the same issue.

3 questions please:

1) Why if I followed the permanent mount as instructed for additional HDDs, still does not make me "owner", forcing me to click "open as admin" EVERY time I need to open that partition?
2) Where exactly is the problem? I don't think it is on Gparted and Disks utilities... Perhaps an error created within the root?
3) Any specific command that I can copy + paste in Terminal? (Please, be clear as I am new with Linux (2 years barely). Thank you all in advance for your help. :-)

BW-userx · 05-12-2023, 08:19 AM

I create partitions, format, then change ownership of mount point before mounting them into it.

aka check your ownership/permissions

Code:

create mount point

mkdir /media/mounthere

sudo chown user:usergroup /media/mounthere

in fstab

/dev/sda1 /media/mounthere ext4 default 0 1

save

sudo mount -a

you can check first to see ownership to the hdds partition

ls -la /media/mounthere

if need be change it 

sudo chown user:usergroup /media/mounthere -R

or

sudo chmod 775 /media/mounthere -R

or whatever permissions you need on that partition

https://chmod-calculator.com/

some systems use automount into /run or whereever they are putting it now, but I like mine hard mounted via fstab, but what is going on with you is clearly a permissions issue is all, no big deal.

Carlos Australia · 05-12-2023, 08:01 PM

Thank you very much for your help. I'll try now...

Nope, still is confusing. As I mentioned before, I am new with Linux and your commands on Terminal leads me nowhere. Still I get error messages. Yes, the only thing I understand is that I need to fix my "permission issues". I thank you for your explanation but it is not helping me yet. Perhaps you were not very clear? Where and how do I "save" as you put it on? Where or what exactly is "mounthere"? "Here" where?... I cannot understand this coding sample...

I also run sudo fdisk -l
and gives me the following 3 errors (in red) on Terminal:
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary.

I've checked what those errors mean, and also said read that when I run fdisk:
..."fdisk has decided to not show you the EFI partition table at all. It is showing you the "protective" old-style MBR partition table instead, as if that were how you had partitioned your disc. That contains one entry, which is really (since it is type ee) a dummy entry that is supposed to encompass the entire disc, including the EFI partition table".

So, is it an error on partition table or just a "permission issue" as BW-userx told me above?
This is getting even more confusing!!!...

Anyone else can share some light or lead me to another forum or clear coding if this issue has been raised before, please? Thank you.