> You can, and mount(8)¹ is very exhaustive. > Assuming your HD is formatted with some kind of MS filesystem (fat/ntfs) > you can tweak the mount options to set the ownership of the files. > > ¹ In short: man mount Will definitely look over it. I would imagine that the external hdd is formated with vfat? Not sure though. I figured out what I needed to, now time to look into the deeper problem, ;-).