Having to always reset permissions on folders

asked 2018-11-08 04:08:23 -0500

Orriginal
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Been using Fedora 28 for a while now but I seem to have to always reset permissions on folders on a 2nd Hard disk to be able to edit files...Which, I am sure you can understand is a pain in the ...................

I am using sudo chmod -R ugo+rw folder name

It works for one time but the next time I try and reopen the same file, It is always in READ ONLY mode.

Please help...Am I doing the command wrong ? Thanks in advance

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How do you mount the drive?

florian ( 2018-11-08 04:38:00 -0500 )edit

Are there errors in logs about failing hard disk? That would turn the complete hard disk into read-only mode.

johanh ( 2018-11-08 05:57:55 -0500 )edit

The drive is mounted automaticly at boot.... I'll check the Logs Hadn't thought about that !! DOH

Orriginal ( 2018-11-08 09:55:03 -0500 )edit

OK, I cannot find anything specfic to tthat Drive..but I'll disable the auro mount and see what happens..thanks for the Idea

Orriginal ( 2018-11-08 10:02:08 -0500 )edit

Florian - YOU GOT IT..thank you..Was a Mount error ;-) THAKN YOU

Orriginal ( 2018-11-08 10:35:39 -0500 )edit

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YUP, as was mentioned earlier...unknown to me there was an error on mount...not listed in Log files BUT I removed the mount command and booted...added it back and now seems ot be OK...Not to surw what happened but it works again..thanks ;-)

Orriginal ( 2018-11-08 10:37:20 -0500 )edit

I bet the directory under which you mounted the drive had wrong permissions and was owned by root, not by your username. That would explain everything.

ed209 ( 2018-11-08 11:35:44 -0500 )edit

OK, I was mounting it under the /mnt folder...I'll move it to home and see if thta changes it....

Orriginal ( 2018-11-09 03:00:34 -0500 )edit

So, with the Drive mounted under the home dir, I can access the files in read write mode....BUT if I select the files from "recent" in the FILE app...then it always opens in READ ONLY mode.............any ideas ?

Orriginal ( 2018-11-09 03:18:26 -0500 )edit

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