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I installed Kubuntu onto an MSI gaming laptop. Which has two drives, 128GB SSD and 1TB HD. The OS and boot drive is on the SSD and works fine. I used KDE Partition Manager to format and mount the HDD with the ext4 filesystem at the mount point /home/joe/Data and the partition is /dev/sdb1. A lock symbol appears next to the mount point.

I can't write to or read from this drive. Properties show owner as root, but I have no way of accessing this. Is there an easy way to make this available as a read/write drive to store my data? The laptop is personal, so I have no fears of who gets access.

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Update in case it helps others. This worked for me:

$ sudo chmod -R a+rwX /home/joe/Data
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    The a+ will add the permissions for all users which, judging by /home/joe/Data that appears to be part of a certain user's home directory, might be a very bad idea ... You can use u+ instead to add permissions to the current user.
    – Raffa
    Apr 23, 2022 at 19:06
  • This ^^^ makes a lot more sense. Apr 23, 2022 at 23:13

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