Bonjour tout le monde,

I have finally fully installed linux mint and have been working on getting everything up and running. So far, I haven’t had many issues, but I am having trouble with my 2nd drive. I just want my 2nd drive to mount on boot, and for programs to be able to write to it.

I have looked up guides on pulling up the disks in mint and going into the mount options and selecting mount on boot. This works, but for some reason, programs lose permission to write to it. When I switch the drive back to ‘user session defaults’ programs can write to it, but it doesn’t mount on boot. I haven’t found anyone mentioning this problem so I thought I would post here. Also, my home folder isn’t encrypted and when I go to permissions on the drive, it says ‘permissions could not be determined’

Thanks

  • harsh3466
    4·
    7 months ago

    At the terminal, go to the directory that contains the mount point for the disk (so if the mount point is /mnt/disk go to /mnt.

    Run ls -l. This should list everything in /mnt with the owners and permissions. If your mount point (in this example disk) is owned by user and group root, then you just need to change ownership of the mount point and the disk attached.

    With the disk attached, run sudo chown -R user:user disk

    Replace each instance ofuser with your system username (if you’re not sure what you’re username is run whoami and it will tell you), and replace disk with your mount point directory.

    Here’s what this does:

    • sudo: escalates your privileges to run the chown command
    • chown: the utility that allows you to change ownership of files and directories
    • -R: tells chown to change ownership recursively
    • user:user specifies the user and group that will own the files/directories you are modifying.
    • disk: specifies the file(s)/directories you want to change ownership for.