External HDD auto-mounted as root

[suvayu ali]

Hi Ed,

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> 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.

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Suvayu

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