[nmglug] change permissions on USB drive

Nick Frost nickf at nickorama.com
Fri Oct 12 01:19:42 PDT 2007


brianokeefe wrote:

>> Actually, the above should read;
>>
>> chown root:brianokeefe disk
>>
>> then;
>>
>>> chmod 777 disk

> thanks Nick! I'll try this first thing in the AM

You're welcome.  The other option for changing just the group 
permissions would be;

chgrp brianokeefe disk

of course you will need "Sudo" or ROOT privileges in either case to use 
chgrp (change group ownership) and chown (change ownership)

-Nick




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