[SOLVED] Cannot move files to ext4 backup drive

[Joel64]

After reformatting my external drive to ext4, I discovered that I can't move any files to it. A bit of Googling reveals something about a mount point (which I know nothing about), and that I need to chown it.

When I plug in the drive, open Dolphin and click the drive name, it does mount, so that works. But how do I know where the mount point is so I can chown it?

[Qqmike]

Look under
/media/<your_name>
or
/mnt

[Beerislife]

It's a permissions problem. The drive is owned by Root. I solved it ages ago by:

sudo apt install krusader

sudo krusader

Right click on the drive and select properties and set the ownership to your user name,
and the same for all sub-directories.

Of course you can use a Terminal command but I have a rotten hangover and can't
remember it!

[claydoh]

A useful thing to remember for this is to set the permissions when creating partitions using KDE Partition Manager. This is useful when adding new drives or partitions where user level access is desired, and you don't need to muck with things afterward.

[Joel64]

Thanks everyone.

I found the mount point in /media/<user>, and chown'd it. Working perfectly now.

A useful thing to remember for this is to set the permissions when creating partitions using KDE Partition Manager. This is useful when adding new drives or partitions where user level access is desired, and you don't need to muck with things afterward.

Good to know! I reformatted to ext4 via the command line, but when I do this again on my other laptop, I'll go through partitio manager and do what you suggested. Thanks!

[oshunluvr]

You can also do this command line: sudo chown 1000:1000 ***
*** being wherever you have the ext4 file system mounted.