bitter tartan
For some reason, every time I reboot my machine my main NVME drive becomes locked to /root permissions only. I need it to be accessible by /users as I want a VM machine to be able to reference files on this drive.
If I set to "user session defaults" it appears to restore to allow user access, however, the VM can't find it then for reason I don't understand.
New to Linux... may need more support than others.
Appreciate any help!
I've used a chown command to set accessibility to "dyptre" which is also the name of the user. However, it doesn't seem to work.
Screenshot of Midnight Commander
And screen clip of the Disk Manager settings.
austere terrace
make the user account in linux part of the vbox-users group. You've already taken ownership of the drive, so that's good.
bitter tartan
make the user account in linux part of the vbox-users group. You've already take...
I believe I have figured out the issue.
The drive as shown above is NTFS. I still have a Windows partition on my computer that I boot periodically. I beleive when booting the Windows drive it was causing the drive to become locked back to root as permissions were reset... something of the sort at least.
Currently backing up the drive before converting it to Ext4. Test I did on a different blank drive did not have this problem.
austere terrace
I believe I have figured out the issue.
The drive as shown above is NTFS. I st...
Could also have been Windows Fast Startup locking it, since you mentioned it had a running copy of windows on it.
if you plan on keeping Windows, know that it won't install on a linux-formatted drive, like ext4
bitter tartan
if you plan on keeping Windows, know that it won't install on a linux-formatted ...
Yes definitely, I have a separate NTFS drive that the windows partition and programs are stored on.
This shared drive was left as NTFS as I thought the Windows VM machine needed it as NTFS to access files still... seems the VM sorts that issue out though. So that resolves the need for it to be NTFS. I can more confidently change this main storage drive to ext4 now which will remove that Windows partition from access it and locking it down.
If I need the files on the windows partition, I'll use a smaller NTFS drive (I think called a swap drive?) for that I guess.