I just bought a new SATA disk and have formatted it into ext4 using gparted. When I ran Gparted, I ran it as root. Now, I can't write files to the drive because I'm not the owner of the drive.

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The drive has a folder called lost+found . I'm primary going to store virtual machines on the drive.

Now my question is the following; What is the best way (most secure?) to make me the owner of the drive without "destroying" the permissions on the drive (I'm thinking of the lost+found folder).

Thanks in advance!