External hard drives in linux

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 15:21, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-users wrote:
>
> >My external drive shows it’s contents in caja but I can’t do things
> >like create a folder. It seems like a permission issue but I don’t
> >know how to change it.
>
> It's maddening. I had the same issue with a couple of external drives
> that I had bought for backups. Here's why:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/392154/why-are-the-default-permissions-for-media-username-rootroot

I just use sudo to create the folders I need on the drive and chown
them to the appropriate user.  Or is this more complicated than that?

Colin