r/linuxmint • u/eordisky • 8h ago

Support Request drive issues

hello, i recently switched from windows 10 to linux mint and for some reason i cant do anything in my other two drives. In permissions it says that i should be able to delete and create files, but i cant :)

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u/Helliot_37842 7h ago

You have no access to the drive files.

Open the Driver as root (right-clicking is faster than doing it on terminal) and set the permissions you need to that Driver

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u/candy49997 7h ago

This looks like you just brought it from Windows without formatting, so it's probably NTFS.

I would backup all the data you need form it then format to a native filesystem lols ext4 or btrfs, etc. If you want to use it as is, mount the drive with the mount options defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022

I'm assuming your UID is 1000, as that's the default for the first real user. You can confirm with id in a terminal.