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How to make secondary partition accessible to me (and root) only

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I have workstation with 160GB HDD capacity.

I have partitioned it with:

40GB -- for OS(Ubuntu) Installation

40GB -- for my personal data, and

80GB -- for all other (public) data.

I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on 1st partition.

Confusion : How can i make 2nd partition (Personal data) visible and accessible to me (and root, of course) only.

All other programs and files need to be accessed by all the users, but those 40GB must be accessible to me (my account) and root.

How can I achieve this (or some alternate)?

Note : If referring to any link, then make sure it's easy to understand as I am very (very) new to Ubuntu.

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answered 1 Year ago variark · Accepted Answer

It's rather easy to do: set the directory where your disc is mounted to your username and usergroup. Only users that are that username or are part of that usergroup and of course root will have access. So lets assume you gave this disc (during installation) a mountpoint called /discworld/. Log in with your admin-user and do...

 sudo chown $USER:$USER /discworld/

... and any other user should get an permissions error when trying to access this disc.

(where $USER needs to be replaced for the username you want this for unless it is the admin-user)

Sidenote:

If you did not add a mountpoint during installation you can add one to /etc/fstab. If you got questions about how to do that ... search AU first and if no good results are found ask a question about it ;-)