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How to change the permissions of an external drive?
If the label on the USB has been removed it will mount the USB as its UUID If the above still didn’t fix anything check again to see that your USB is not plugged in and Create the /media/Elements leave it as root/root but change the permissions on the folder to 777 sudo chmod 777 /media/Elements
How can I change the permissions on a USB flash drive?
You can then use sudo chmod 777 . to change the permissions. Or simply use the absolute path to execute the command. This way is independent of the working directory: This might help someone – in my case the problem wasn’t permissions to read the path to the device itself, but to the /media/ [user] directory.
Where are the read and write permissions on a hard disk?
As you can figure out by yourself, there are read and write permissions on a hard disk drive, memory card, USB stick, pen drive, and jump drive.
How to change USB Mount permissions in Ubuntu?
If the above still didn’t fix anything check again to see that your USB is not plugged in and Create the /media/Elements leave it as root/root but change the permissions on the folder to 777 sudo chmod 777 /media/Elements Hopefully now when you plug in the USB labeled Elements it will mount in a usable way.
Is there a way to automatically mount a USB external drive?
Every time you now plug in you USB external disk you can instantly access it via some sort of Desktop or Bookmark shortcut. An alternative solution to the above is to mount a device automatically by its UUID. Use the following command to retrieve the UUID of all storage devices plugged into your system.
How to know if an external drive mounts as root?
First make sure that the USB is not plugged in and mounted. Check /media/Elements and see if it exists. If it does I would delete it then insert the USB again and see whats in the /media/ folder. If Elements isn’t in there and some other folder is .. then the Label on the USB has changed.