Can't access secondary drive after fresh partitioning/format (wrong permissions)

[nortexoid]

I just bought a new SSD. I set up Kubuntu 13.04 beta on it and now want to use my old 1GB HDD as secondary storage. I've partitioned it using both a liveCD (opensuse), Kubuntu 13.04's KDE partition manager and gparted. Using each of these methods, I can't access my disk: the permissions seem to be wrong, and I can't set them to the correct user.

Can anyone tell me how to wipe a secondary (whether USB or SATA) drive under a given account to use with said account? I would most grateful!

[Bashing-om]

nortexoid;

This tutorial is what I use -from the command line.
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ins...gANewHardDrive

works for me

[oldfred]

I think the link from bashing-om has the commands, but quickly and not for NTFS formatted partitions.

#if not known to list partitions, change sda5 to your data partition or create multiples with different mount points
# is comment, do not type
sudo fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /mnt/data
sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/data
#where sda5 needs to be your drive, partition
chmod -R a+rwX,o-w /mnt/data
# Note that the -R is recursion and everything is changed, do NOT run on any system partitions.
#All directories will be 775.
#All files will be 664 except those that were set as executable to begin with.
sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/data

If an internal drive then you want to permanently mount with fstab.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1983336
Mount & edit fstab from Morbius1 - suggest using templates instead. Post #6

More info:
Understanding fstab
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

[nortexoid]

Many thanks. I managed to get it sorted by mounting with fstab, running a kdesu dolphin and changing the user/group there to the correct one. I wish the standard partition managers (or a newly written app) would automate all this stuff or present it to the user in a transparent and understandable way.