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  • On Linux files and folders have permissions info for owner, group and everyone else. So you can set individual permissions for these.

    By setting the owner to root, if you want to make your user able to read/write that folder, you must either give permissions to everyone to read/write OR assign a group to the folder, give the group permissions to read/write and add your user to that group.

    If you instead set your user as the owner of the folder, you can make only your user able to read/write without other fuss.

    If you are a newbie, stick to gui file manager. Can you please tell me what file manager are you using? Most of the time you can change permissions thru right click > propriety > permissions.



  • /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do

    You have to change permissions or owner of that folder (not /mnt itself but the subfolder “something”).
    If I’m not wrong changing permissions is enough to use gui “move to trash”, you can use chmod thru cli (man chmod) o your gui file manager with root privileges.

    If you want only your user be able to read/write to that disk, then change the owner using chown thru cli (man chown) or again your gui file manager.
















  • Politics is endangering the whole Lemmy, with instances defederated because of their political views and a lot of censorship.

    Calm down folks! This is a web forum, people should be free to share what they think (without harassing anyone) without being censored, creating a biased platform.

    I’m not into non-free-speech instances (like lemmy.world), but I do understand and respect their decision because it MAY decrease harassment between users. But please don’t defederate with everyone otherwise it would still be a biased platform. Let people choose what to see and just ban spam and real harassment (I’ve used too much this word).

    I’m not into politics myself and it drives me crazy that we can’t rely on fine communities because they are on instances defederated by big instances because of their political views.