How to give basic permissions to one folder (path) only?

[grass (user)]

The root directory of my newly mounted drive appears to lack basic permissions, I can’t even move files there using Nautilus for instance. This was caused by accidentally transferring all data from a protected Clonezilla directory there.

How to give basic “read & write” permissions exclusively to this /mnt/primary/ path, without going recursively into the subfolders?

[blueshurricane4 (Tim Cuthbertson)]

Give permissions to what users?

If just to root, then (running as root)

chmod 744 /mnt/primary

[tjdoyle (Tom Doyle)]

Hi,

How have you mounted the drive?

Thanks Tom.

[vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev)]

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/flash-drive-permission/73081/2?u=vgaetera

[grass (user)]

@tjdoyle

How have you mounted the drive?

In the Gnome ‘disks’ app.

[grass (user)]

# Or provide write permissions for everyone
sudo chmod a+w /mnt

Running sudo chmod a+w /mnt/primary appears to have resolved the issue.

[grass (user)]

@blueshurricane4

Give permissions to what users?

To myself, the user account.

I don’t understand the Unix permissions yet and have tried to avoid giving high-level access to any group.

[grumpey (Joe Walker)]

Arch wiki file permissions

For reference

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@grass

How to give basic “read & write” permissions exclusively to this /mnt/primary/ path, without going recursively into the subfolders?

I have often needed to do that, and a simple
cd /mnt
sudo chown user:user primary
works to give the user access to the root of that mounted device. What permissions you have beyond that depend on the device itself.