I got the CD caddy for my ACER and put my HDD in it. BUT, it is owned by root and I don't have permissions to read/write, etc. I know I have seen this come up before but I can't find a solution.
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The HD Caddy itself is just a piece of hardware and isn't owned by anyone. If you don't want to use root and root tools to access a particular HD plugged into the caddy then open a Konsole and use the chown command.
chown SpecialED:SpecialED -R /path to head of drive in caddy.
I have an HD in an HDCaddy in my Acer too, and I mount it at /backup. On it is a subdirectory called Data: /backup/Data
Data was owned by root but everything in Data was owned by jerry:jerry. In a Konsole I issued "chown jerry:jerry /backup/Data. I didn't use "-R" because only Data was owned by root. Everything inside Data was owned by me and my group. I still have to be root to use the mount command but after I mount it I can use Dolphin in my account, without root privileges, to drag and drop things into Data. BTW, that HD is formatted as a Btrfs subvolume and its primary use is as a repository for archiving snapshots."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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It won't let me do that either.Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
specialed@specialed-Aspire-VN7-791:~$ chown specialed:specialed -R /media/specialed/Data_Storage/
chown: cannot read directory '/media/specialed/Data_Storage/lost+found': Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/media/specialed/Data_Storage/': Operation not permitted
specialed@specialed-Aspire-VN7-791:~$If you think Education is expensive, try ignorance.
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Y'all forgot to use sudo
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sudo chownWindows no longer obstructs my view.
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Originally posted by claydoh View PostY'all forgot to use sudo
Sent from my LG-H931 using TapatalkD'oh!Originally posted by snowhog
Last edited by SpecialEd; Sep 15, 2018, 09:50 PM.If you think Education is expensive, try ignorance.
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All is right in the world... for now. I have a 500GB SSD humming along in the Acer now with a 1TB HDD for storage, etc., and 16GB of RAM. Timing is good because my ASUS (with similar setup) got knocked off it's table and the screen is cracked. It is a touch screen and it is now happy. That one has to go to the shop.
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My bad! I should have included sudo in the command"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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