Windows like partion in Ubntu22.04

Mahboob Elahi

11/18/23, 2:39 PM

I am new to Linux. Yesterday i have installed ubuntu 22.04 and during the partition I made "/personal" with 300GB space but after installation, it seems this drive is in root and I do not have read/write permission to this derive and I am unable to give permission to use other than root. Is there any way to move this partition to home or give full permission? Basically, i want to have windows drive systems like c, d,e drives.

1 + 3

permissions

partitioning

Organic Marble

11/18/23, 2:47 PM

The problem is likely permissions and/or ownership on the mount point. If you open a terminal and do `ls -l` on the location, it will tell you who owns it and what the permissions are. Please edit your question and include this information. Don't post it in comments, or add a screenshot. Copy and paste the information.

Will

11/18/23, 3:08 PM

I’m sure it’s possible - but, (and I know it’s not your question) please consider if you really want to do this. Linux is different from windows; if you try to make it as windows-like as possible, it won’t be the same and you’ll probably be left thinking it’s not as good just because it isn’t the same. When I moved from Win to Ubuntu, I deliberately didn’t make it emulate windows - and I now hugely prefer Ubuntu. There really isn’t any advantage to having c /d / e drives etc, once you’re used to the unified file system of Linux.

Nmath

11/18/23, 6:38 PM

See: https://askubuntu.com/a/138551

Score:1

Ubuntu

Rinzwind

11/18/23, 2:54 PM

That is default behaviour

You do a

sudo chown $USER:$USER /personal

($USER will magically be changed to the user you used to issue this command; the user needs to be your admin user; if you want another user than your admin user type the actual username instead of $USER)

and you own the partition. If you need more than 1 user change the 2nd $USER to a group those users all belong and all those users can use it.

Basically, i want to have windows drive systems like c, d,e drives.

Not possible. You could make a mountpoint with name c but that to most of use is a degression. We name our partitions with user friendly names. I would ask to get used to how things are done in Linux and I guarantee you will like it soon too :)

Everything in Linux also has a place something belongs to. If you want to mount fixed harddisks with windows partitions you do that in /mnt using /etc/fstab. Removables automatically mount in /media.

Mounting windows partitions: How to make partitions mount at startup?

+ 0

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Windows like partion in Ubntu22.04

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.