How to take ownership of a new partition?

MegaSvensk · 09-30-2007, 03:53 PM

Hi,

i'm running Ubuntu 7.04 and I've just created a new ext3 partition on my external hard drive (using Paragon Partition Manager in Win XP) but the ownership is set to root so I cannot do anything with it.
How do change the ownership?

I found this command in another thread on this topic but nothing happened when I ran it.
sudo chmod -R 777 /media/yourHardrive

EDIT:
Sorry, I posted this in the wrong section. Could someone please move it to the "Newbie" section?

jailbait · 09-30-2007, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegaSvensk

Hi,

i'm running Ubuntu 7.04 and I've just created a new ext3 partition on my external hard drive (using Paragon Partition Manager in Win XP) but the ownership is set to root so I cannot do anything with it.
How do change the ownership?

I found this command in another thread on this topic but nothing happened when I ran it.
sudo chmod -R 777 /media/yourHardrive

EDIT:
Sorry, I posted this in the wrong section. Could someone please move it to the "Newbie" section?

You cannot change the ownership or permissions of a mount point while it is mounted. Firstbumount /media/yourHardrive. Then use chmod to change permissions and chown to change ownership. See:
man umount
man chown
man chmod

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Steve Stites

pixellany · 09-30-2007, 04:12 PM

For ownership, you want "chown"

That chmod command only makes sense if you substitute the name and path of your device. Also, note that "-R 777" gives everyone full privileges on the folder + all contents. Not necessarily what you want.

The best way to get the partition to mount the way you want it is by editing /etc/fstab

MegaSvensk · 09-30-2007, 04:30 PM

I ran the chown command and now I have ownership.

Thanks for your help.