Setting Permission in Ubuntu to Read and Write in Other Partition

After installing Ubuntu in ssd as my main daily driver it was running pretty fast and smooth compared to dual booting with windows. After installing Ubuntu in ssd i got my hard drive laying around only for file storage. But I got one problem with my harddrive, I could not write any files nor read files from it. I have so many files in that drive. It was in NTFS partion. After searching for a while I found out it shoud be converted into Ext4 or FAT file system so linux can read or write files to it.

So to convert it into Ext4 or FAT:

• Open Disks App in Ubuntu

• Go to the HDD section top left cornor as show in above screenshot

• Select the partition you want to format. (in my case labeled as linuxStorage)

• Rename the volume as your liking and set the type to ExT4 or FAT
• The Press Next
• After the format is complete open files and in the navigation bar click other location and double click to mount the partition you have just formatted and renamed.
• After Mounting the drive open the terminal using Ctrl + Alt + T
• Type the following command :

  lsblk
  

• The above command will display block device which are files that represent devices such as hard drives, RAM disks, USB drives etc

in my case i would do the following

sudo chmod 777 /media/sameer/linuxStorage

but in your case you should replace with your username and disk partition

• The list of permission are as follows:

7- Full(Read, Write & Execute)

6- Read and Write

5- Read and Execute

4- Read Only

3- Write and Execute

2- Write Only

1- Execute Only

0- None