How to change permissions to the other drives in a hard disk?

Question

I have dual booted with XP and Ubuntu 11.04. Later I formatted Ubuntu partition with 11.10 now I have three drives one for XP other for UBUNTU and other for data when I log in into UBUNTU I am unable to create or delete the all files in the other two drives (XP drive and data drive).

Is there any way to change permissions to the entire drive?

I am unable to change permission by GUI (properties option).

Solution

The method you use to set permissions varies with the file system.

For linux permissions it is chown/chmod , but I am guessing you are asking about ntfs.

For ntfs, edit the appropriate line in /etc/fstab add in the permissions option

UUID=12102C02102CEB83 /media/windows ntfs-3g auto,users,permissions 0 0

Change your UUID to your NTFS partition , you can list it with

sudo blkid

You then re-mount the partition and use chown and chmod

sudo chown your_user:your_user /media/windows
sudo chmod 770 /media/windows

If you want a graphical tool, use PySDM

sudo apt-get install pysdm

See also Ubuntu Wiki File permissions

Comments

[ltalhouarne]

is it possible to do it by using gparted

[Panther]

no, gparted is a graphical front end for managing partitions - making them, resizing them, etc, but not for managing files or file permissions.

[ltalhouarne]

i am unable to unmark the option mount the drive with read-only mode little help please how to change the drive from READ MODE to CREATE OR DELETE mode

[ltalhouarne]

in my permission menu i have both owner and the group as root

[Panther]

What "permission menu" ? Did you make the change in fstab ? psydm ?

[ltalhouarne]

and sorry will you please tell me how to change permissions using psydm

[ltalhouarne]

after done this i restarted the system then i am getting "serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /media/sda3 press I to ignore, S to skip or M for manual recovery" errors each time when i am starting the system

[Panther]

@VENKI That sounds like a new problem, and not what I would expect. Post the line you used from fstab and you might want to start a new question.

[ltalhouarne]

hmm thanks for the help i am able to gain permissions.

[Bucic]

Only the 'fstab' bit of this answer is helpful. As for the resto of it - you could have put "google it!" just as well. PySDM is far from self explanatory and the Wiki is the usual Terminal nightmare.