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    [Solved] HDD I use for drive backup and storage only runs as root. Help me safely change permissions?

    Alright, thanks a lot, that did it! I ended up making a LV with my two SSD then ran chown for MINTHDD, and now it's accessible and everything. I appreciate it, I know it's pretty basic knowledge but hey, now I've learned how to use some very handy commands, and I thank you for that.
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    [Solved] HDD I use for drive backup and storage only runs as root. Help me safely change permissions?

    I should clarify that I want to make the disc accessible without root, readable and writeable so that I can use it as both a backup and for mass storage. I though the 777 in that context makes it inaccessible to read and write? I don't know anything though, that's just something I saw in passing...
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    [Solved] HDD I use for drive backup and storage only runs as root. Help me safely change permissions?

    ran it again with sudo sudo df -h [sudo] password for laserdiscdisciple: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 1.4M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/mapper/mint--vg-root 116G 36G 75G...
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    [Solved] HDD I use for drive backup and storage only runs as root. Help me safely change permissions?

    Results of df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 1.4M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/mapper/mint--vg-root 116G 36G 75G 33% / tmpfs 7.8G 36M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm...
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    [Solved] HDD I use for drive backup and storage only runs as root. Help me safely change permissions?

    Hi y'all, I'm new to Linux, but I'm having a wonderful time getting acquainted with it. This is by far my favorite OS experience. However... The last several times I got too curious about my drives, I broke my OS, mostly owing to cloned UUID and other shenanigans while I was learning the OS...
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