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Folder Ownership
Posted: 15. Apr 2014, 22:46
by noob51
Hello again,
How do I change the ownership of a folder on an external hard drive. I forgot how to use the chown command, Can I rename the drive to something shorter than the long sequence of letters & Numbers. I know I'm lazy.
Thanks.
Re: Folder Ownership
Posted: 15. Apr 2014, 23:33
by knome
Do man chown in a Terminal to unforget how to use it.
You can use Gparted to Label a partition.
Re: Folder Ownership
Posted: 15. Apr 2014, 23:46
by westms
noob51 wrote:How do I change the ownership of a folder on an external hard drive.
I forgot how to use the chown command,
After mounting:
Can I rename the drive to something shorter than the long sequence of letters & Numbers. I know I'm lazy.
You may give a volume name to the partition. If the filesystem is ext2, ext3 or ext4, with command:
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e2label /dev/<partition-name> volume-name
or with
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tune2fs -L volume-name /dev/<partition-name>
The volume name can be used by the mount command.
Re: Folder Ownership
Posted: 16. Apr 2014, 14:39
by noob51
Thank You,
Took a while to relearn chown, used gparted to lable external, never had a label only a UUID.