Extrenal Hard Disk and File System

[MirJafar Ali]

Hello,

I have one very naive question. The computer science department of our
college has limit
of 10GB for the users and my requirements are higher, so I was planning to
use external
hard disk ( with USB ).

But it seems that when I use external hard disk, its permission are always
for the root. (i.e)
/medis/disk and it goes to read-only mode.  My question is what pertinent
questions ( and the
solution), I must ask to the system adm so that I can read-write into the
hard disk and don't
annoy them  for such a stupid question.

thanks

Mir
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