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Installed new external hard drive. Won't let me install data. Ownership listed as ROOT. How do I change ownership to ME? (Disk was reformatted from msdos/NTFS to GPT/ext4)

Gwen Walcott
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First mount the hard disk. Then, open Terminal and type in:

sudo chown (your user name, e.g. gwen):(your username again) '/media/gwen/ExHDD'

(NOTE: 1)By user name I mean the name you typed in the "User name" field with lower-case letters during installation. 2) The path '/media/gwen/ExHDD' is an example. For real external HDD ownership transfer, type in for the path '/media/(your user name)/(the external HDD's label'.)

Type your password when it asks you, and you will have full ownership of your external hard disk.

Hope this works!

na-no.
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  • man chown https://linux.die.net/man/1/chown; maybe -R for recursivity.. if it's not empty – user688056 Dec 17 '17 at 16:45
  • @user688056 "chown" changes file/folder ownership from root or another user, e.g. bajiru to your user (e.g. gwen) or another user (e.g. mark). It is not harmful at all. (if you think it is) I do not want to distribute harmful code before I even have tested it on my own Ubuntu PC. Plus, you did a great job searching for the command/code. You never know when someone will suggest you to try a harmful code e.g. "sudo rm / -r -f" which deletes everything on the Linux system & on all mounted partitions. There are some trolls on the web suggesting newbies to try "deadly" comands. Be careful. – na-no. Dec 17 '17 at 19:32
  • @user688056 Here is a link about some deadly Linux commands you should never run. https://www.howtogeek.com/125157/8-deadly-commands-you-should-never-run-on-linux/ – na-no. Dec 17 '17 at 19:34
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    your response was good, i was lazy and didn't argumented it ; my comment was made in the hope that OP will read the source (as in manual) or if the recursivity need arrives; thx for the link i liked the "~ to null" one :) – user688056 Dec 17 '17 at 19:46
  • @user688056 You're welcome! :) – na-no. Dec 19 '17 at 16:26
  • Bajiru's comment is what I was looking for. No need to start confrontations. My personal experience with CHOWN was on the root disk. Accessing another disk was what I lacked experience with. Thanks for everyones' input – Gwen Walcott Dec 19 '17 at 20:51
  • @GwenWalcott You're welcome! Remember to accept my answer as the solution by clicking the tick (since it was the right answer) and adding "[SOLVED]" to the title. – na-no. Dec 21 '17 at 18:13