Ubuntu – How to set read/write permissions the hard drives

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I've recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop, but I can't do anything with my 1.5TB external drive, and my 500GB because I don't have write permission. Are there any specific commands I can use in the terminal to set the read/write permissions?

The external is NTFS, and the 500GB is ext4.

Best Answer

for your 500 GB hard-drive (ext4) filesystem, you need to give the write and execute permission on /media/username/your_drive partition:-

sudo chmod ugo+wx /media/username/your_drive

Brief Explanation:-

sudo :- it will elevate your priviledges to execute the command.

chmod:- command to change the permissions

u :- user

g:- group

o :- other

/media/username/your_drive :- partition

For your NTFS partition please follow fossfreedom's advice.

Hope this is helpful.

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