Ext3/Ext4 External Hard Drive = Read Only!!!!

[zacharyrs]

How can I make my ext3/ext4 external hard drive have full permissions so that I can write and edit it? Pretty Please?

If you can fix this I will put a photo of you on my desktop and defend your name against nay-sayers.

[devils casper]

Let say, /dev/sdb1 is External disk's ext3 partition and it has been mounted at /media/sdb1 mount_point (folder).

You have to give ownership of mount_point ( /media/sdb1 ) of ext3/ext4 partition to Regular User.

Execute id command and note down group_id and user_id. Execute chown command to give ownership and enable read/write access.

id
sudo chown -R user_id:group_id /media/sdb1