Howto disable password request on file creation on newly formatted hard disk

Question

I have just formatted an external hard disk using this command:

$ sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdc1

However, once this is done, whenever I want to create a directory or file in this hard disk, it always ask for password (i.e. permission requirement).

Is there a way I can disable that?

Note that I can't format the partition with mkfs unless I use sudo.

Please advice.

Answer 1

If you mount the partition at /media/foo, then try this:

sudo chmod 1777 /media/foo

It'll act like /tmp does at that point. So any user can create a folder / file in there, but you can only delete your own files.

Answer 2

I would recommend you asking the same question at ServerFault. I think you'll get a better answer over there.