How do I permanently change owner and group of a system device?

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How do I permanently change owner and group of a system device?

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I am using a separate HDD as a disk for my Virtualbox machine. I have made a vmdk using the tutorial provided in the VirtualBox manual, but in order for the machine to run I have to constantly change the owner and group of the /dev/sdb device to the user I am logged in with.

Time after time permissions get reset back to root:disk, and I'm not certain when exactly that happens. What can I do to change the owner and group permanently or maybe to not have to do it at all?

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The probably simplest and best way to fix the problem is adding your user to disk group.

sudo adduser %user disk

Then logoff and login back, you should able to interact with hard drive from Virtualbox.

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