I also just saw your edit. Look into Linux ownership and permissions. chmod
and chown
are important commands to know how to use as a Linux system administrator.
Running sudo chown -R user:user ./drive
in /mnt
will give your user account ownership of that directory and all folders inside of it.
Make sure you replace user
with your username and drive
with the name of the mount point for the drive.
Hm, you probably can, but I personally don’t and I’m not sure which file manager you’re using. I like the terminal for this because it’s quicker and easier to do (or undo if you fuck up).
I also gave you the wrong command earlier,
sudo chown -R user:user ./*
doesn’t affect the top-level folder (e.g.,/mnt/drive
). My mistake.