Volume permissions

[zormat]

Probably a stupid question.

So I get a new hard drive, which hasn't been partitioned. So I partition it with GParted. Now it's owned by root and I can't do anything with it, nor figure out how to change its permissions.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Which filesystem did you choose? (ext4, ntfs, fat32, etc)

[zormat]

ext4

[TeoBigusGeekus]

You just need to change the permission of its mount point.
Plugin your drive; its mount point will be inside your /media folder, let's say disk.
Give this

sudo chown -R yourusername: /media/disk

in a terminal.

[zormat]

Thank you, sir.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

You're welcome and don't forget to mark the thread as solved.