Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/01/14 16:07, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> > Yes...  UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times.
>
> I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything
> like that when mounting through graphical means. I was talking to some
> folks at #archlinux and they also said when mounting through graphical
> means no chowning is required even for ext4 filesystem. I will have to
> try that myself.

If you want to not worry about user and group names then simply change to use a different filesystem type!!!!

mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdg1 or whatever partition is to be hold the file system.