harddrive partition and folder properties

GRUB setup instructions
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
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to the "sudo chown" and "sudo chmod" commands. In a unix/linux system, users can only write into their home directory by default. this is a very good approach, because this way, it is hardly possible that one user breaks the system (by accident or intentionally).


Drives by default belong to the root user



sudo mkdir /media/Disk/userdata

or using Nautilus as root ("gksudo nautilus").

Then, you give the directory to the user

sudo chown youruser:youruser /media/Disk/userdata

You can also do this with nautilus as root.


From this point, it is n excellent idea to create a symbolic link to that directory under the home directory of the user. That way, the user will be able to reach his space on the drive from within his home directory (where al his other data are as well).

sudo ln -s /media/Disk/userdata /home/youruser/userdata


src: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=543






Now I need to give it the proper permissions. Let's just assume, for this example, that my username is marie.
sudo chown -R marie:marie /storage
sudo chmod -R 755 /storage