How do I configure mount for my new hard drive?

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I have a new SSD and used Gparted to format it to the ext3 filesystem - that went smoothly but now I can't access it.

I right click on the drive icon in Nautilus under "Devices" and check the permissions - it says that the owner is root and I don't know how to change that.

What are you trying to change the permissions of? A file or folder on the partition? — Richard, Dec 17 '13 at 23:19
What do you mean by "file"? Is it an actual file on the filesystem? Perhaps you can explain what your goal is and exactly what you have tried. — Richard, Dec 17 '13 at 23:22
i click on the file pin on the side bar than click on the ssd under devices than right click on it and go to properties. I go to permissions to change the access so i can read and right but the owner is labeled as root — BriskJocks, Dec 17 '13 at 23:25
the answer below left me with this ERROR:nautilus-properties-window.c:1836:schedule_owner_change_timeout: assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)) — BriskJocks, Dec 17 '13 at 23:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 23:43

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For doing it graphically, a simple way would be to use this in terminal:

gksudo nautilus

And then modify these to be Read & Write: permissions

answered Dec 17 '13 at 23:43

Wilf

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '13 at 04:52

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CLI solution:

sudo chown user:group mountpoint.

So, for example if your drive is mount to /media/foobar is my username is tux, and group is penguins.

sudo chown tux:penguins /media/foobar

answered Dec 18 '13 at 04:52

csgeek

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How do I configure mount for my new hard drive?

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