change permission of a usb drive

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Re: change permission of a usb drive

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gmanm1, this is a double post. Please PM a moderator to have this deleted.
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Re: change permission of a usb drive

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This worked for my external usb hdd:

chmod -R -v 777 /mnt/sdb

Replace /mnt/sdb with your device.

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