Better ways to format USB disks (file fomats etc)

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Jul 5 18:52:06 UTC 2009


Andreas Tunek writes:

> Maybe I should clarify my use case experience. After I used GParted to
> format the HDD to ext3 (and ext4 later) I tried to create a folder on
> the HDD. I could not do this as a normal user, only as root. When I
> formatted the HDD to ntfs I could create folders and files. I want the
> ntfs behavior.

Create a top-level folder on the USB drive that's owned by your userid, then 
you can create any subfolders that your heart desires.

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