I’m thinking this needs ots own post so it doesn’t het losted or maybe someone can help me…
So I understand sys-usb now, connecting external USB either stick or SSD. I Can format them once connected to the domian I want, run gpatted to format “ext4” domain now not only see the external USB device I can access it BUT I can not make folders, files move from one domian to this domain that has usb device and copy/paste. It’s all grayed out, why?
When I go to permissions on the usb devices it’s “read only” and I can’t change the access level to read/right, all grayed out as will. But I see “root” up to. So do I have to use terminal to do what I want within the usb device?
Am I missing something or is this a security feature?
I’m not sure if I follow what you are trying to say, but are the permissions set in such a way that the regular user (named user in Qubes) has write access to your newly formatted USB?
Try this:
If your USB is mounted in /home/user/somewhere/, go there in the terminal (i.e., cd /home/user/somewhere/).
Now run sudo chmod 777 . (note the dot at the end!).
Did things improve? Can you create a file now (by running for instance touch a.txt)?