How to change ownership and permissions of automatically mounted HDD
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP up vote
3
down vote
favorite
I have a 128GB partitioned SSD with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 installed, and I want both systems to use the internal 1TB HDD (which has one NTFS partition) for data such as the Downloads, Pictures, Videos and Music folders which should be common between the two OSs.
In order to achieve this, I set up the HDD to be automatically mounted on boot at /mnt/sda1 (using gnome-disks), moved the stuff already in the folders on Ubuntu to the HDD and created symbolic links in /home for those folders (by using ln -s /mnt/sda1/Downloads ~/Downloads etc).
Everything seems to work fine, except all the files I moved are now owned by root and have permissions set to 777. I didn't do this manually so I assume it's a consequence of moving them to the mounted drive, hence my question: how can I change ownership and permissions for these files? I tried using both chown -R and chmod -R but neither worked (nor did they give an error message).
dual-boot permissions mount
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
favorite
I have a 128GB partitioned SSD with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 installed, and I want both systems to use the internal 1TB HDD (which has one NTFS partition) for data such as the Downloads, Pictures, Videos and Music folders which should be common between the two OSs.
In order to achieve this, I set up the HDD to be automatically mounted on boot at /mnt/sda1 (using gnome-disks), moved the stuff already in the folders on Ubuntu to the HDD and created symbolic links in /home for those folders (by using ln -s /mnt/sda1/Downloads ~/Downloads etc).
Everything seems to work fine, except all the files I moved are now owned by root and have permissions set to 777. I didn't do this manually so I assume it's a consequence of moving them to the mounted drive, hence my question: how can I change ownership and permissions for these files? I tried using both chown -R and chmod -R but neither worked (nor did they give an error message).
dual-boot permissions mount
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
favorite
up vote
3
down vote
favorite
I have a 128GB partitioned SSD with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 installed, and I want both systems to use the internal 1TB HDD (which has one NTFS partition) for data such as the Downloads, Pictures, Videos and Music folders which should be common between the two OSs.
In order to achieve this, I set up the HDD to be automatically mounted on boot at /mnt/sda1 (using gnome-disks), moved the stuff already in the folders on Ubuntu to the HDD and created symbolic links in /home for those folders (by using ln -s /mnt/sda1/Downloads ~/Downloads etc).
Everything seems to work fine, except all the files I moved are now owned by root and have permissions set to 777. I didn't do this manually so I assume it's a consequence of moving them to the mounted drive, hence my question: how can I change ownership and permissions for these files? I tried using both chown -R and chmod -R but neither worked (nor did they give an error message).
dual-boot permissions mount
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
I have a 128GB partitioned SSD with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 installed, and I want both systems to use the internal 1TB HDD (which has one NTFS partition) for data such as the Downloads, Pictures, Videos and Music folders which should be common between the two OSs.
In order to achieve this, I set up the HDD to be automatically mounted on boot at /mnt/sda1 (using gnome-disks), moved the stuff already in the folders on Ubuntu to the HDD and created symbolic links in /home for those folders (by using ln -s /mnt/sda1/Downloads ~/Downloads etc).
Everything seems to work fine, except all the files I moved are now owned by root and have permissions set to 777. I didn't do this manually so I assume it's a consequence of moving them to the mounted drive, hence my question: how can I change ownership and permissions for these files? I tried using both chown -R and chmod -R but neither worked (nor did they give an error message).
dual-boot permissions mount
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
edited Jun 3 at 10:34
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
asked Jun 3 at 10:27
SakoDaemon
10110
10110
add a comment |Â
add a comment |Â
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
up vote
2
down vote
accepted
You don't change change ownership and permissions of an automatically mounted HDD. Microsoft file systems (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT) get their ownership and permissions when mounted, and directories and files inherit them.
Instead you
control the mounting with a line for the partition(s) in the file
/etc/fstabif already mounted, you unmount and remount the partition(s) using
umountandmountwith mount options to get the ownership and permissions, that you want.
The same mount options can be used in /etc/fstab and with mount.
This is described in a detailed way in the following links,
How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Mount USB with exec flag by default
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to/etc/fstab(or rather, edit the one added bygnome-disks):/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
I added this to my /etc/fstab file:
LABEL=Library /home/john/Libraries ntfs-3g fs-name=Library,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=Library,permissions,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,gid=1001,rw,dmask=27,fmask=137 0 0
You'll have to set the LABEL or use the UUID and use your path and your uid and gid.
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
add a comment |Â
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
2
down vote
accepted
You don't change change ownership and permissions of an automatically mounted HDD. Microsoft file systems (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT) get their ownership and permissions when mounted, and directories and files inherit them.
Instead you
control the mounting with a line for the partition(s) in the file
/etc/fstabif already mounted, you unmount and remount the partition(s) using
umountandmountwith mount options to get the ownership and permissions, that you want.
The same mount options can be used in /etc/fstab and with mount.
This is described in a detailed way in the following links,
How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Mount USB with exec flag by default
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to/etc/fstab(or rather, edit the one added bygnome-disks):/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
accepted
You don't change change ownership and permissions of an automatically mounted HDD. Microsoft file systems (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT) get their ownership and permissions when mounted, and directories and files inherit them.
Instead you
control the mounting with a line for the partition(s) in the file
/etc/fstabif already mounted, you unmount and remount the partition(s) using
umountandmountwith mount options to get the ownership and permissions, that you want.
The same mount options can be used in /etc/fstab and with mount.
This is described in a detailed way in the following links,
How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Mount USB with exec flag by default
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to/etc/fstab(or rather, edit the one added bygnome-disks):/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
add a comment |Â
up vote
2
down vote
accepted
up vote
2
down vote
accepted
You don't change change ownership and permissions of an automatically mounted HDD. Microsoft file systems (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT) get their ownership and permissions when mounted, and directories and files inherit them.
Instead you
control the mounting with a line for the partition(s) in the file
/etc/fstabif already mounted, you unmount and remount the partition(s) using
umountandmountwith mount options to get the ownership and permissions, that you want.
The same mount options can be used in /etc/fstab and with mount.
This is described in a detailed way in the following links,
How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Mount USB with exec flag by default
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
You don't change change ownership and permissions of an automatically mounted HDD. Microsoft file systems (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT) get their ownership and permissions when mounted, and directories and files inherit them.
Instead you
control the mounting with a line for the partition(s) in the file
/etc/fstabif already mounted, you unmount and remount the partition(s) using
umountandmountwith mount options to get the ownership and permissions, that you want.
The same mount options can be used in /etc/fstab and with mount.
This is described in a detailed way in the following links,
How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Mount USB with exec flag by default
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
answered Jun 3 at 20:22
sudodus
19.8k32666
19.8k32666
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to/etc/fstab(or rather, edit the one added bygnome-disks):/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
add a comment |Â
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to/etc/fstab(or rather, edit the one added bygnome-disks):/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
2
2
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Another link. help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions I like its examples include the windows_names parameter to prevent you from having invalid characters in file names. If Windows 8 or 10 you must also have Windows fast start up off. And Windows may turn it back on with updates: askubuntu.com/questions/843153/…
– oldfred
Jun 3 at 21:06
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to
/etc/fstab (or rather, edit the one added by gnome-disks): /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
Thank you both for the links. What I did to get the desired result (mounting the drive as my own user rather than root, with 744 permissions) was add the following line to
/etc/fstab (or rather, edit the one added by gnome-disks): /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto windows_names,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,umask=033,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0– SakoDaemon
Jun 4 at 20:09
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
@IoanaAlexandru, You are welcome, and thanks for sharing your solution :-)
– sudodus
Jun 5 at 4:34
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
I added this to my /etc/fstab file:
LABEL=Library /home/john/Libraries ntfs-3g fs-name=Library,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=Library,permissions,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,gid=1001,rw,dmask=27,fmask=137 0 0
You'll have to set the LABEL or use the UUID and use your path and your uid and gid.
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
I added this to my /etc/fstab file:
LABEL=Library /home/john/Libraries ntfs-3g fs-name=Library,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=Library,permissions,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,gid=1001,rw,dmask=27,fmask=137 0 0
You'll have to set the LABEL or use the UUID and use your path and your uid and gid.
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
I added this to my /etc/fstab file:
LABEL=Library /home/john/Libraries ntfs-3g fs-name=Library,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=Library,permissions,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,gid=1001,rw,dmask=27,fmask=137 0 0
You'll have to set the LABEL or use the UUID and use your path and your uid and gid.
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
I added this to my /etc/fstab file:
LABEL=Library /home/john/Libraries ntfs-3g fs-name=Library,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=Library,permissions,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,gid=1001,rw,dmask=27,fmask=137 0 0
You'll have to set the LABEL or use the UUID and use your path and your uid and gid.
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
answered Jun 3 at 19:43
jpezz
63412
63412
add a comment |Â
add a comment |Â
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
var $window = $(window),
onScroll = function(e)
var $elem = $('.new-login-left'),
docViewTop = $window.scrollTop(),
docViewBottom = docViewTop + $window.height(),
elemTop = $elem.offset().top,
elemBottom = elemTop + $elem.height();
if ((docViewTop elemBottom))
StackExchange.using('gps', function() StackExchange.gps.track('embedded_signup_form.view', location: 'question_page' ); );
$window.unbind('scroll', onScroll);
;
$window.on('scroll', onScroll);
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1043163%2fhow-to-change-ownership-and-permissions-of-automatically-mounted-hdd%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
var $window = $(window),
onScroll = function(e)
var $elem = $('.new-login-left'),
docViewTop = $window.scrollTop(),
docViewBottom = docViewTop + $window.height(),
elemTop = $elem.offset().top,
elemBottom = elemTop + $elem.height();
if ((docViewTop elemBottom))
StackExchange.using('gps', function() StackExchange.gps.track('embedded_signup_form.view', location: 'question_page' ); );
$window.unbind('scroll', onScroll);
;
$window.on('scroll', onScroll);
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
var $window = $(window),
onScroll = function(e)
var $elem = $('.new-login-left'),
docViewTop = $window.scrollTop(),
docViewBottom = docViewTop + $window.height(),
elemTop = $elem.offset().top,
elemBottom = elemTop + $elem.height();
if ((docViewTop elemBottom))
StackExchange.using('gps', function() StackExchange.gps.track('embedded_signup_form.view', location: 'question_page' ); );
$window.unbind('scroll', onScroll);
;
$window.on('scroll', onScroll);
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
var $window = $(window),
onScroll = function(e)
var $elem = $('.new-login-left'),
docViewTop = $window.scrollTop(),
docViewBottom = docViewTop + $window.height(),
elemTop = $elem.offset().top,
elemBottom = elemTop + $elem.height();
if ((docViewTop elemBottom))
StackExchange.using('gps', function() StackExchange.gps.track('embedded_signup_form.view', location: 'question_page' ); );
$window.unbind('scroll', onScroll);
;
$window.on('scroll', onScroll);
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password