How can I change the owner of sda3 from root to my user to avoid permission problems?

Question

I installed Ubuntu, it is my first time on Ubuntu. Before I used Windows.

In this picture sda3 is my "D disk" like Windows. This disk should be for all my files. But the owner of this is root and I have problems when I use code editors like vs code.

I want to change the owner of this partition. How can I achieve that?

What problems are you facing while using softwares? – kortewegdevries Apr 26 '20 at 07:53 — kortewegdevries, Apr 26 '20 at 07:53
Every time asks to permission to save – Abbosxon Apr 26 '20 at 07:59 — Abbosxon, Apr 26 '20 at 07:59

Ricardo · Answer 1 · 2020-04-30T19:10:30.837

You can try to open the terminal app and type

sudo chown -R $USER /dev/sda3

Explanation:

sudo will ask for the root password once to get permission to make these changes;
chown does the change of ownership
-R makes is recursive to all subfolders and files
$USER uses the current user name
the last argument is the path of directory to be changed

How can I change the owner of sda3 from root to my user to avoid permission problems?

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