how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive

[Sebastian Roth]

What do you see when running this command: ls -al /media/dureal99d/

My guess: It’s not permissions but the honky spaces in the directory names! While most filesystems (especially ext4) can handle spaces there are a lot of potential pitfalls along the chain of tools and software you are using to try and access those with Plex…

[dureal99d]

total 16
drwxr-x---+  4 root      root      4096 May 22 22:00 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root      root      4096 Nov 23 18:27 ..
drwxrwxr-x  28 dureal99d dureal99d 4096 May 22 01:49 Mass Data 2
drwx------  33 dureal99d dureal99d 4096 May 23 14:51 Mass data Volume

this is what I see

Mod edited to use code box.

[Wayne Workman]

@dureal99d said in how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive:

/dev/sdb /media/dureal99d/Mass\040data\040Volume ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/dureal99d/Mass\040Data\0402 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

What’s up with the back slashes?
/media/dureal99d/Mass\040Data\0402

[dureal99d]

@Wayne-Workman said in how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive:

@dureal99d said in how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive:

/dev/sdb /media/dureal99d/Mass\040data\040Volume ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/dureal99d/Mass\040Data\0402 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

What’s up with the back slashes?

I noticed that as well and I have no clue as to what, how, why or where they came from. I too am perplexed by those

/media/dureal99d/Mass\040Data\0402

[dureal99d]

@dureal99d said in how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive:

\040Data\0402

I bet I know why , its because I have spaces in the drive names . I’m going to rename the drives and see if that solves that backslash issue.

[Tom Elliott]

@dureal99d just guessing but I think it’s how fstab associates spaced names. In fstab terms,\040 translates to a space.

[Wayne Workman]

Why do you need Plex to view image files, what is the end goal? And is FOG working?

There are far simpler ways to copy/share the images than Plex.

[dureal99d]

@dureal99d ok renaming the drives solved the back slash issue, also I got the permissions set on the drive but I have no clue as to how I did it. I going to retrace my steps and get back to how I did it here on this forum.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Sebastian-Roth said in how to chmod a drive or folder on a secondary internal drive:

My guess: It’s not permissions but the honky spaces in the directory names! While most filesystems (especially ext4) can handle spaces there are a lot of potential pitfalls along the chain of tools and software you are using to try and access those with Plex…

I told you…

[dureal99d]

@Wayne-Workman Yes fog is working fine, I use plex as a media server on the same system. I use it so I can use the xbox in my room to view many media I have on my drives.

I simply used the gui to set the permissions on the drive.