I have installed Windows and Ubuntu 18.04 in dual boot mode and I wanted to have a partition that would share the data between both systems. My partition is in ext4 file system and is mounted under /media/data. I can see it in Ubuntu files system but I can't write anything. How can I fix it?
I went for first option recommended by @vanadium and called sudo umount /media/data, sudo chown kuba /media/data, sudo mount -va but it didn't work - I still can't write anything on /media/data
Just to clarify - the partition is not visible in Windows, probably - as sugested by @vanadium, due to wrong file system. I present GParted view below:
How can I sort it all out? (Please note that I'm a new user to Ubuntu, so elaborate answers with console instructions will be much appreciated. I'll be happy to provide any additional info and console output.
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To be able to write to a partition, you need to have the proper permissions. Therefore, either
- Change the owner of the mount point of that partition (
/media/data) to your own user.
or
- Set permissions for others to "Read, Write and Execute". This is a less secure option because then, any user, including users that log in over the network, can do anything on that partition.
Of course, you need to have administrator rights ("root") to change permissions.
You indicate that you want to share that partition with Windows. You should realize that Windows does not natively support the ext4 file system, so it will not be accessible from within Windows. The file system of Windows, ntfs, is preferred because Ubuntu supports it.
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