Usb Flash Drive Is Auto Selected For Root Access Only

I created an ext2 partition with parted (about 500MB) on a USB flash drive. I tried to move data to the new drive and it said I had no permissions. Why is this happening?

I created an ext2 partition with parted (about 500MB) on a USB flash drive. I tried to move data to the new drive and it said I had no permissions. Why is this happening?
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This i normal if you created the partition as root.
The easiest way to change this is to to use file manager in super user mode.
Brows to the partition right-click and choose properties then permissions enter your user name in
the owner field and users in the group field.

/Geoff

Rather annoying. I'm switching to VFAT. Life's easier...

Alternatively you could've just mounted the partition with a gid for users.

That would've enable anyone in the users group to read/write/execute from there.

Suse automounts usb flash drives. I find it annoying that it automounts ext2 drives as root only. I don't want to manually mount every single time I want to use the drive. Unless there's an easier way, I'm sticking to vfat.

I get that problem on 10.0 when the drive is in the USB port at start-up, but if it's connected later, I don't. I'm not sure if your issue results from the same cause, however.