[OT?] question about external hd

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 02/06/2013 06:33 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Should I be root to be
>> able to create/remove files/folder in my external hd??
>
> No.  Create a scratch dir on the hd (as root) and do
>
> chmod 1777 <mydir>
>
> This will create a directory that any user can write to.

Or you could chown the root directory of the external drive's file 
system to the user that normally mounts it (this is what I do with most 
of my external storage).

Regards,
Bryn.