Thread: How to 'reown' a faulty drive

hi,

have partition on hd can't access @ due permissions being greyed out: can't take ownership: previous install went wrong.

there way of resetting, realigning read write settings on hd without losing stuff in files don't have permission to/

tia

daniel

find mount point either having in gparted or

code:

sudo blkid

partition listed "/dev/sdxy" "x" letter , "y" number.

take ownership of partition with:

code:

sudo chown -r <user>:<user> /dev/sdxy

where "<user>" current username

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