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@@ -146,12 +146,12 @@ To apply the change permanently depends on your host operating system:
 - On any other platform look up in the documentation on how to pass kernel parameters.
 
 ### Permissions for elasticsearch
-If you see a message similar to `AccessDeniedException[/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/nodes]` when initially starting elasticsearch, that means the container is not allowed to write files to the volume.  
-That's most likely the case when you run `docker-compose` as an unprivileged user. To fix that issue, shutdown the container and on your host machine run:
+If you see a message similar to `failed to obtain node locks, tried [/usr/share/elasticsearch/data]` and `maybe these locations are not writable` when initially starting elasticsearch, that probably means the container is not allowed to write files to the volume.  
+To fix that issue, shutdown the container and on your host machine run:
 ```
-chown 1000:0 /path/to/mount/point
+chown 1000:0 -R /path/to/mount/point
 ```
-This will match the permissions with the **UID** and **GID** of elasticsearch within the container and should fix the issue.
+This will match the permissions with the **UID** and **GID** of elasticsearch process within the container and should fix the issue.
 
 ### Disk usage
 The Elasticsearch index will turn to *read only* if the disk usage of the container goes above 95% until the usage drops below 90% again, you will see error messages like `disk usage exceeded flood-stage watermark`, [link](https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist#disk-usage).