Confusion with permissions on new installed HDDs

I have added a 4TB HDD to my server for /plex and the permissions are user.

I added another 4TB HDD to my server which I partitioned in half, 2TB for /timemachine and 2TB for /general. But the permissions for these two partitions are root and I cannot seem to change the permissions.

I don’t know how I managed to get /plex to have user permissions or whether that was the default ? Does /timemachine and /general have root permissions because they are partitions ?

I would like to access /plex and /timemachine and /general over the network using my Mac Book Pro, but at the moment the Mac can only see /home (and its sub-folders).

How do I configure /plex and /timemachine and /general so that the Mac can see these folders ?

When I intially created /plex I used Disks in Ububtu Desktop to mount the HDD, but this only had root permissions. So I edited fstab so that the drives are mounted at boot without restrictions on the permissions and this worked.

I did the same for /timemachine and /general but for some reason the permissions are root. I have played around with chmod to try and change the permissions but it hasn’t worked.

Below is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=447c8859-3065-4c12-94e8-a38b519efda1 /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=94a784fa-1a60-4f42-8c73-f576d8e35d30 /home           ext4    noatime,nodiratime 0       2

/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=58725a12-7643-450f-a245-e20628b2769c none            swap    sw              0       0

# remaining space on 1TB HDD
UUID=555678db-af2f-4c32-af8b-b1cc622c8bd8 /storage ext4 defaults 0 2

# sdb for media
UUID=27db9a6d-6c62-4016-841e-7fb5e467f15d /plex ext4 defaults 0 2

# sdc1 for time machine 
UUID=e76948e8-412e-4b08-bd6b-2c3441bcd81c /timemachine ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 2

# sdc2 for general 
UUID=b9a88247-d9b7-4e19-a96f-70f8668340d7 /general ext4 noatime,nodiratime 0 2

My setup is as follows:

Dell PowerEdge T30 Intel Xeon E3-1225v5
SATA 0: DVD-RW
SATA 1: 1TB HDD
SATA 2: WD RED 4TB HDD (/plex)
SATA 3: WD RED 4TB HDD (2TB for /timemachine and 2TB for /general)
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with Ubuntu Desktop)

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