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I'd like to be able to read files from external hdd or other partitions without having to su root every time or chmod the whole partition to myself/group. How can I give myself/group permission to read files that are owned by root and are outside of the / file system?
The external drive has NTFS and ext4 file systems, which are being automounted by dolphin.
Maybe there is a way to auto assign additional group for files not in /?
I think the option user users or group while mountig will do it:
mount /dev/sdx /<mountpoint> -o user=<myuser> or simmilar with the other options.
user=mount option for setting ownership to a non-root user. Is that the sort of solution you're looking for? What type of filesystem is on the external HDD?ls -lfor one of those files?ls -lon external partitions I see they have userrootwhich looks like was automatically assigned. That is bad since I'd need to know a difference between my own system/for which I have root user and the rest of the system that does not belong to it. Maybe there is a way to auto assign additional group for files not in/?dolphin(I retrievedls -lby manuallymount /dev/sdaX /mnt/foo) and hopefully I'm still sticking to X - reading files (with user/group) that are owned by root and are outside of my os.