[xubuntu-users] changing ownership on thumb drive

[Thomas Stein]

On 2016-05-13 12:20, JMZ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some weird issues with thumb drive ownership.  Steps:
> 
> 1) 'sudo blkid' to call up the thumb drive assignment
> 
> 2) 'sudo mount /dev/sd* /thumb' [where /dev/sd* is the drive
> assignment, and /thumb a directory off of the root]
> 
[...]
> Any ideas?  Thanks,
> Jordan

You can pass the owner to the mount command. Try

sudo mount -t auto /dev/sd* -o uid=blah

Thomas Stein