Can't copy to just formatted ext3 drive (Solved)

[Gumper]

I just finished formatting an external usb drive to ext3 using GParted. I can access the drive but if I try to write to it, I get the message "Access denied. Could not write to /media/disk/."

Any ideas how to fix this?

If I check the ownership it gives me:
User: root
Group: root

Thanks!

[Qqmike]

Re: Can't copy to just formatted ext3 drive

You can mess with changing ownership & permissions, or just use sudo.
For example,
sudo cp /dir/file /dir
or whatever.

[Qqmike]

Re: Can't copy to just formatted ext3 drive

or,
if you are working in GUI,
open Konqueror as root:
kdesu konqueror

Then do your copy-paste/drag-drop, etc.

[Gumper]

Re: Can't copy to just formatted ext3 drive

I am able to create a new folder there by using sudo, but I'd rather not have to do this. As far as I can tell the permissions are the same as my other partitions on my internal hard drive and I can copy & past to these without using sudo. Also, prior to formatting this as ext3 it was fat32 and i could write to it without any problems.

What would be causing this problem?

[Gumper]

Re: Can't copy to just formatted ext3 drive

Thanks Qqmike. I ended up changing the ownership and everythings fine now.

You can mess with changing ownership & permissions, or just use sudo.
For example,
sudo cp /dir/file /dir
or whatever.