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I'm a very new Ubuntu user (14.04 LTS) and this is my first question here.

I am trying to follow the instructions from this Reddit thread about mounting an NTFS hard disk to use as a Plex media library (https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/2opw25/super_annoying_permissions_issue/cmqjcml)

After creating (with sudo) the /media/samsung directory (in my case) I cannot change the owner as the directory cannot be found. The casing is correct. Here is output showing the directory and the error...

$ dir
Desktop    Downloads         media  Pictures          Public     Videos
Documents  examples.desktop  Music  plexmedialibrary  Templates

$ cd media
~/media$ dir
samsung
~/media$ cd ../..
/home$ sudo chown paul:paul /media/samsung
[sudo] password for paul: 
chown: cannot access ‘/media/samsung’: No such file or directory
/home$

What is wrong here? I'm finding Ubuntu very frustrating so far. TIA.

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  • possible duplicate of How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
    – muru
    Jan 27, 2015 at 20:00
  • "After creating (with sudo) the /media/samsung directory". When did you do that?(it is not in the commands you supplied).
    – Rinzwind
    Jan 27, 2015 at 20:09
  • @Rinzwind aside from the typo, chmod/chown on an NTFS in itself is not going to work, hence the possible dupe.
    – muru
    Jan 27, 2015 at 20:10
  • Yes, I know. But it is not an answer to the problem; it is an answer to what user the wants. So I am in doubt _O-
    – Rinzwind
    Jan 27, 2015 at 20:12
  • @Rinzwind Another XY problem, I suppose.
    – muru
    Jan 27, 2015 at 20:15

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The mistake you made is to mix up /media/samsung with ~/media/samsung notice the ~

The ~ sign refers to your home folder location for example /home/$USER/ when you stated ~/media/samsung you were actually typing /home/$USER/media/samsung

You could also use sudo chown paul:paul ./media/samsung the . means from current folder (or something like it) but this will set the ownership for the folder located at /home/$USER/media/samsung.

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  • Thank you. I shall try it tomorrow evening. It's late here now.
    – Paul Davies
    Jan 27, 2015 at 23:47
  • thank you. I am a little less frustrated today and looking forward to learning more
    – Paul Davies
    Jan 28, 2015 at 20:34

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