You could also do chown -R username:groupname . , which would change the permissions on the current directory, and then recurse down inside of it and all subfolders to change the permissions. chmod -R 666 /var/www will give read, write permissions for everyone. Partitions: lsblk -f or: # file -sL /dev/sd* result: /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=63fa0104-4aab-4dc8-a50d-e2c1bf0fb188 (extents) (large files) (huge files) /dev/sdb1: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data, UUID=b3c82023-78e1-4ad4-b6e0-62355b272166 /dev/sdb2: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size 4194303 pages, no label, UUID=3f64308c-19db-4da5-a9a0-db4d7defb80f Check ext2 ,ext3, ext4 partition: sudo umount /dev/sdXN sudo e2fsck -f -n /dev/sdXN -n reports issues without making changes. If you want e2fsck to repair errors interactively, rerun without -n: sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdXN Pack: tar czf name_of_archive_file.tar.gz name_of_directory_to_tar Unpack: tar -xzvf file.tar.gz [[https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-scp-command-to-securely-transfer-files/|SCP]]: scp [OPTION] [user@]SRC_HOST:]file1 [user@]DEST_HOST:]file2 Rsync to NTFS filesystem (rsync have to be installed on boths machines) rsync -rtv --modify-window=1 [user@]SRC_HOST:]file1 [user@]DEST_HOST:]file2 Password less SSH http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub | ssh b@B 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' [[https://www.stationx.net/how-to-use-nmap-to-scan-a-network/|Scan network]]: sudo nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24 https://reintech.io/blog/setting-up-nfs-server-on-debian-12 Add PPA Debian: sudo apt -y install software-properties-common python3-launchpadlib Hex Editors for Linux sudo apt install hexedit