root only on newly initialized sata drive?

[Dave Stevens]

I have booted a live 16.04 and used gparted to remove the partition  
then recreate it and format it to ext4. Fine so far. When trying to  
save to the the drive I can't unless I use sudo. The permissions show  
the drive's only partition is owned by root. How do I change this? I  
know how to chown but don't see why it's created as root-owned by  
default.

Dave


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