Ubuntu – Change ownership of external drive

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I just bought a new SATA disk that I've now formated into ext4 using gparted. When I ran Gparted, I ran it as root. Now, I can't write files to the drive because I'm not the owner of the drive.

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The drive has a folder called lost+found . I'm primary going to store virtual machines on the drive.

Now my question is the following; What is the best way (most secure?) to make me the owner of the drive without "destroying" the permissions on the drive (I'm thinking of the lost+found folder).

Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

If you have root access then fire up your terminal and write

su
Password: (enter your root password here.)

Now mount your HDD (if not already mounted). And type 

chown -R "username_youwant" path_to_folder/folder_name

And now you're done!

It is generally a good practice to mount your HDDs in the /media or /mnt directory.

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