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Depends on how that partition is formatted and probably other factors as well. It works for me perfectly fine with an exFAT partition and it also works with ext4 partitions that belong to my user. This is on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I want to be able to browse any partition on my desktop if is mine or otherwise. Is there a way to do it?
In PCLinuxOS it mounts to /media. But even if I change the ownership of /media to me, it still gets mounted as root.
I keep multiple distros across 3 to 4 hard disks. Windows partitions both NTFS and FAT get mounted with rw while ext ones go root. Even a data partition.
Then you'll have to give yourself ownership of the files on the ext partitions. The permissions of the mount point don't factor into this. That's just how Linux permissions work. The permissions are in the file system and not set during mount.
I have read just now that if I give myself ownership of a special file called '.' (just the dot without quotation marks) in the partition I could achieve this. I seem to have succeeded for now in this. I will use it for sometime and see how it goes. This at least solves the problem of using a data partition for backup.
Great!
. is the folder you're currently in. And .. is the parent folder.
Well that is how it was mentioned in the post on Super User forum. It has worked out for me.
I have read just now that if I give myself ownership of a special file called '.' (just the dot without quotation marks) in the partition I could achieve this
Wow.. just.
Also, reads like an AI wrote it.
Why the 'wow'?
Because I think the level of understanding you’re at, you shouldn’t be tinkering with stuff. You could wind up doing more harm than good. Sorry for the snark, it seemed amusing.
They should be tinkering around. The more they break, the more learning opportunities!
Actually, that’s an excellent point! Just don’t use a work system.
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