Permission issues writing/deleting to ext4 formatted HDD

[Aragorn]

@GrindFreak

I recently formatted a previously ntfs HDD to ext4 using Gparted, however when I try to edit something in that drive I get an error saying permission denied. I can however delete things through the terminal using sudo

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@GrindFreak

There is also a folder “lost+found” which i did not place in there.

This is normal on ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems. It’s where recovered files will be placed if the filesystem ever gets damaged and repaired with fsck.