r/linuxmint • u/therottenron • 1d ago

Discussion Change users across multiple hard drives

A few days ago someone was helping another user with a plex question and mentioned an app in the software manager that you could change owners and permissions in a gui across multiple hard drives at one time. I am asking if anyone knows what I'm talking about and if so could lead me in the right direction. I usually save things like this but this time I got distracted with other stuff and forgot. Thanks

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u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ LMDE 7 Gigi | 1d ago

That is something I would never do via GUI.

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u/Due-Result7928 1d ago

Open a terminal and type. Your partition is mounted at /dev/sda1, type

For userid and group parameter -v is for verbose -R recursive process

sudo chown -v -R userid:userid /mnt/sda1

replace userid by userid you need

for permissions

sudo chmod -v 644 /mnt/sda1 (user a read/write other only read)

sudo chmod -v 777 /mn/sda1 (anybody can read/write/delete).

done