ownership issue

Question

I've three partitions.

1. Filesystem
2. swap
3. For my documents

I can't access the third one, it says

you aren't the owner

How can I access my partition?

Answer 1

In this case try the command lsblk to verify that the block partition exists. Check if is mounted or not by using the command: df -hT

If it exists but there is no mounted at the mount point session, then you need to mount it.

If it's mounted under /home then try to change the home file permission by using the command setfacl

lsblk
setfacl -m u:user_name :rwx    /home

Answer 2

If you recently add this partition (not during the Ubuntu install process), you can easily add permissions to your own user.

sudo chown user:user /path/to/documents -R

You also should check if the partition is properly formated and mounted.

-R parameter means recursive change permissions of all current files in this directory and its sub-directories.

Answer 3

Change the file owner and group. Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and run the command

sudo chown -R "$USER":"$USER" /home/"$USER"

to correct the settings recursively.