External hard drives in linux

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 16:46, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> Colin Law wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:
>
> >> It's maddening. I had the same issue with a couple of external
> >> drives that I had bought for backups. Here's why:
> >>
> >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/392154/why-are-the-default-permissions-for-media-username-rootroot
>
> >I just use sudo to create the folders I need on the drive and chown
> >them to the appropriate user.

Yes, the owner owns the folder so has whatever access is required.

Colin