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It seems repetitive even to myself asking this but I've searched this forum and have not been able to fix my issue. I had created one extended partition and installed my UBUNTU 14.04 on it.

Now I have 440 GB available so have recently created two new primary partitions on the free space. But when I click them to mount and access them from the "Places" menu (I have installed Ubuntu-mate) the only thing there I would have is a window opened and I can not create anything on it.

I figured it may have been mounted as root and I have not a single clue how to change it to my username. Could you please help me?

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This is as I suppose by mounting your partition read only, so either you have to remount with write permissions or add to fstab to automount automatically.

Get the UUID

Run the command:

sudo blkid 

Then open /etc/fstab:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Now add the line to the bottom of /etc/fstab:

UUID=UUID /mounting-point ext4 defaults  0      2

Replace UUID with result of your UUID of /dev/sdX

Replace /mounting-point with path to mount the partition on

Replace ext4 with your partition filesystem type

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  • @Maytux : thank you very much for posting the answer to me. I am going to check it right now. I have also found an other way which I started to describe right after your answer. I wish you the best and, thank you very much again.
    – Tower
    Jul 6, 2015 at 13:32
  • You are welcome and your answer is good +1)
    – Maythux
    Jul 7, 2015 at 10:08
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Ok, This can be the solution:

1- Type the "lsblk" command to see the drives that are seen by your distribution and decide which one you want to mount (in my case it was /dev/sda3) and where you want to set to be its mount point (I chose it to be /mnt/EXTRA_I).

2-use the mount command using sudo like this:
sudo mount -Rc /dev/sda3/ /mnt/EXTRAS_I (you can learn more about the commands above by typing the command name first, and a --help after it. example:mount --help`)

3-Now type your password as you've been asked to do so.

4-Type lsblk again, and observe that your drive chosen is mounted (one of the fields below "MOUNTPOINT" now contains a strins value. in my case: /mnt/EXTRAS_II).

5-it is time to change the owner from "root" to your own. It was "koorosh" in my case. Example: sudo chown -Rc koorosh:koorosh /mnt/EXTRAS_I

6-Observe the prompts of output that declares the mount point is now yours.

7-Congradulations, You have succeeded, and the next time you want to mount the drive (in my case: EXTRAS_I) and view the contents of it, you will have to just double-click on its name in your file manager.

lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 2.8G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 210.9G 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 219.5G 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 7.5G 0 part / └─sda6 8:6 0 25.1G 0 part /home sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sudo mount /dev/sda3/ /mnt/EXTRAS_I lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 2.8G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 210.9G 0 part /mnt/EXTRAS_I ├─sda4 8:4 0 219.5G 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 7.5G 0 part / └─sda6 8:6 0 25.1G 0 part /home sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sudo chown -Rc cockroach:cockroach /mnt/EXTRAS_I changed ownership of /mnt/EXTRAS_II/lost+found’ from root:root to cockroach:cockroach changed ownership of /mnt/EXTRAS_II’ from root:root to cockroach:cockroach sudo umount /dev/sda3

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  • If there is already ext-formatted data on that partition, this method is going to wipe ALL of the permissions on those files. This is a nuclear option. ONLY use it if you don't have any data (read: an OS!) on that partition. Oct 13, 2017 at 16:31

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