Im new here, win10 refugee
I have a spare Hard drive disk, i want to use it for long term storage for amall files to access such as music, photos and documents.
I want it to be able be accessable by any os (win,unix etc) in the future, as far as i have learnt fat32 is an acceptable choice.
i used the gnome disk utility to format it to fat32, i also change the mounting option to mount at system start up. The mount point is /mnt/uuid (uuid being the actual uuid) and identify as uuid=###
The issue for me is i cannot write, i want to start making folders for these documenta, photos music etc but cannot.
This issue only happens after reboot, somehow i can make a folder after a fresh format
Under permissions ownership is root for both user and group
My cachos file system is xfs
Explain like im a child please
If the fat32 is the problem then i will change it. So far i love cachy likw crazy so dont know if i will change os, but i still want that availability
You should probably use exFAT instead of FAT32, as the latter is very old and has limitations.
For the mount point, I’d suggest giving it a name instead of using the UUID, just to make it a bit more human friendly.
Either way, you should create the directory first, before mounting, and give it permissions and ownership so that your desktop user has access to it. For example:
sudo mkdir /mnt/MyData
sudo chown 1000:1000 /mnt/MyData
- You have to use
sudo to mkdir in this particular case, because /mnt is owned by root
- Using sudo results in
/mnt/MyData also being owned by root though
- Consequently, your desktop user can see files inside it, but cannot create or delete files
sudo chown changes the ownership user:group to 1000:1000
- 1000 is typically the ID of the default desktop user
- You can also use the name instead:
myusername:myusername
- After that, mount your partition to
/mnt/MyData (or whatever you want to name it)
If you don’t create and set up ownership of the directory, fstab (or whatever method you use to auto mount on boot) will create the target directory you’re mounting to for you. However, since it’s root doing the mounting on startup, the directory will also be owned by root. That’s likely why you cannot create files in it.
thank you for this explanation, its clear and im learning from it.
but holy hell it works!!
i applied this to the other drives i have, as i want to cut and past from one to another, originally i couldnt but i did the /mnt/### from copy pasting it from the proprties tab
nice, thank you for your time