Hi Ed, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But, since my system is a single user system I've always just cd to > /media or /mnt and then just chown myuid:mygroup mntpoint after doing > the mkfs and after mounting it the first time. > > Since my external drives were all ext3 they just come up as being owned > my me from that point on. Thanks a lot! This should have occurred to me. :-p Works like a charm. Maybe it would be a worthwhile feature request for gparted to ask do this when formatting an external drive. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines