External hard drive

General Discussion
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Hi all,

I have just got another external hard drive which has “gpt”. I reformatted it to ext4, now when I try and add folders to it, it says I can`t because I do not have permissions to create it in the destination or “error copying file, permission denied” when trying to copy files.

Its mounted at dev/sdb2. In GParted theres a little key icon after dev/sdb2 under partition column. Any help appreciated.

Tony

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Update.

I think I`ve found out how to do it by following this:

http://itsfoss.com/set-write-permission-ext4-partition-ubuntu-linux/

It seems to work OK for now!

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Another option would have been to use the “Disks” utility to take ownership of the file system.

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Nice one Mark. Until you mentioned the disks utility, I had forgotten about it. Still, it`s all working OK so far. Bloody microsoft and their gpt and all things to do with them. :o