all you have to do is find out the mount point for the drive in /media and do something like: sudo chown -R root:plugdev /media/external_driver
Then all users who are members of the plugdev group can write to it. Obviously you may also change plugdev for whatever you wish. -- Permissions are incorrect for partition on external usb harddisk when using ext3 https://launchpad.net/bugs/26666 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs