How best to change the 'ownership' of a whole drive or directory via 1 or a few commands?

[Bas Roufs]

Yes, I refer to ext4 partitions
Op 21 mei 2016 11:05 schreef "Nils Kassube" <kassube at gmx.net>:

> Bas Roufs wrote:
> > But another problem popped up. The 'ownership' of my external HD's
> > have changed from #normal-user-name to #root.
> >
> > Normally, I do manage to change the ownership of a whole external
> > drive via kdesudo dolphin > properties. However,  this does not work
> > now. Is there any commandline option to change back the ownership
> > everything at /dev/sdb/ from #root to, in my case, #bas?
>
> Provided you are talking about ext2/3/4 partitions, you can mount the
> individual partitions of sdb to e.g. /mnt and then use the command
>
> sudo chown -R $USER: /mnt
>
> in a terminal (konsole) - replace /mnt accordingly if you use a
> different location.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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