I'm very new to this and I've been at trying to fix this problem for about two hours to no avail.
I just finished getting my new computer put together and installed a new 2TB Seagate hard drive as a secondary drive (my boot drive has no problems at all). I have it formatted into two petitions, one in ext4 through GParted. I want to use this partition to store extra files and programs (specifically games and CAD stuff). I went to make a steam library folder in it and found that it's read only. It is at /dev/sda1
I first attempted to reformat it to no avail. I looked around for some help (most of what I found related to external storage) and tried a few things through the terminal to change the owner.
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/
Returned "only root can do that."
I'm stuck past here, I've tried a couple other things I can't hunt down now, but every attempt gives an access problem to me. How can I change this and regain access? Are there more effective ways to map/install this drive for this purpose to avoid this problem in the future? Thank you!
ls -l
and that mount point gives two returnsdrwx------ 2 root root ...
anddrwxrwxr-x 3 me me ... SteamLibrary
I'm happy it works, but what changed in just doing that? Did the directories just get refreshed for every program? Thank you again!