Hello, New Linux PC build, but one of the Hard drives won't allow a permissions change?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hi, I built a new PC and I have been trying to get a new Hard Drive to allow me to change permissions, but I haven’t been able too. I’m fairly new to Linux. Any help would be very much appreciated.

The drive in question is the sdc 8:32 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 1.8T 0 part /media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND

Sometimes when I mount it it shows /mnt/sdc1

I’m typing this into terminal:

sudo chmod -R a+rwx /media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND

or

qwerty@pop-os:~$ sudo chmod -R a+rwX /run/media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND

I’m sure I am doing something wrong :upside_down_face: It worked fine another drive the one list below at /dev/sdd

I am trying to use:

qwerty@pop-os:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1.8T 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 7M 0 part
└─sda3 8:3 0 68M 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 529M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 99M 0 part
├─sdb3 8:19 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb4 8:20 0 930.9G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 1.8T 0 part /media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND
sdd 8:48 0 1.8T 0 disk /media/qwerty/LINUX 2TB Wester
sde 8:64 1 29.3G 0 disk
└─sde1 8:65 1 29.3G 0 part /media/qwerty/FE83-DEC5
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 498M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 4G 0 part /recovery
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 945.4G 0 part /
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 4G 0 part
└─cryptswap 253:0 0 4G 0 crypt [SWAP]

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Can you post the output of mount

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Was the naughty disk in us by Windows before? Thinking maybe it was ntfs?

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how might I do so, if it isn’t too much to ask.

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I have Windows on a totally separate hard drive, but I didn’t install Linux until after and I unplugged the Windows drive before doing so. I loath Windows but need it for work simplicity. Is there a way to reformat the drive or use something in terminal to open up permissions?

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Which part of that is giving you problems?

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Hey, Windows works well at what it does, like ChromeOS. But like ChromeOS it is creepy AF, sending stuff home.

You probably don;t need to format the drive to be honest, could just use it?

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if this is an NTFS formatted disk then you’ll want to set some things in your fstab for it. I’m assuming you’re trying to get at your steam games or something?

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in a terminal. type mount and press return, then copy and paste the output into summary tags.

mount

[details=“Summary”]
paste the details
[/details]

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For some reason, on this drive when I add new permissions in terminal it doesn’t change them for the drive in question, but for another drive (both brand new) it does. One allows me to change permissions to use it and one does not.

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I totally agree, Windows is very easy to use and learn. Gaming in Linux still has a ways to go. I should’ve stated that I prefer Linux. thanks.

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Can you run the mount command and post the output so we can see whats going on with the drive please?

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For some reason, it worked, I’m not sure how it allowed the permissions to show up where I could change them. I typed mount and viewed the information and then just tried again to open permissions and it worked! Thanks so much guys/gals! I really do appreciate your time! Level1techs has led me down a path to building a new PC, Learning Linux(rookie level 1, but learning) and picking up so much great info.

Much love! Stay safe!

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Its long and full of info, but I did enter it. Now it shows I do have this new drive open and available? I think anyway.

The output sir:
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=16372420k,nr_inodes=4093105,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=3289812k,mode=755)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=28733)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /recovery type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /run/user/120 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=3289808k,mode=700,uid=120,gid=127)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/120/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=120,group_id=127)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=3289808k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sde on /media/qwerty/LINUX 2TB Wester type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdd1 on /media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)
qwerty@pop-os:~$

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Sorry, to save time, it was the second to last line drive:

/dev/sdd1 on /media/qwerty/LINUX2TB2ND type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2) that wouldn’t allow me to add files, or anything at all.

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so you are able to do what you wanted now?

because we didnt change anything.

mount just outputs file mappings, and no changes were made.

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I’m sure it was just user-error, but yes I can add and delete files now. Thank you so much, this made my weekend. I gush about how much I love Linux and I still have much to learn, but I hope to teach people how to begin with Linux at some point!

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