How can I change permissions on external drives right after formatting with GParted?

Question

Using GParted, I have formatted an external HDD to ext4.

As it turns out the default is that I have no write access.

How can I change permissions on external drives?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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It is possible that you may have formatted the drive with root privileges.

If so see link below for some possible solutions.

Hope it helps.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jul 25 '13 at 11:56

gman

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