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I installed Ubuntu, it is my first time on Ubuntu. Before I used Windows.

Screenshot of GParted

In this picture sda3 is my "D disk" like Windows. This disk should be for all my files. But the owner of this is root and I have problems when I use code editors like vs code.

"D disk" properties

I want to change the owner of this partition. How can I achieve that?

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  • What problems are you facing while using softwares? Apr 26, 2020 at 7:53
  • Every time asks to permission to save
    – Abbosxon
    Apr 26, 2020 at 7:59

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You can try to open the terminal app and type

sudo chown -R $USER /dev/sda3

Explanation:

  1. sudo will ask for the root password once to get permission to make these changes;
  2. chown does the change of ownership
  3. -R makes is recursive to all subfolders and files
  4. $USER uses the current user name
  5. the last argument is the path of directory to be changed

Read more about:

  1. How to change permission of a drive in an external hard disk?
  2. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/chown.1.html

Alternatively, you can login as root in the GUI and make the changes in the windows you showed us. Welcome to the world of Ubuntu. You may learn to love the CLI (e.g. terminal app) throughout the time!

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