Mx21 -- copy files to external hdd

[MXRobo]

When first introducing a native format external drive, Instead of doing

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sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /media/drivename/*

change the asterisk to a dot

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sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /media/drivename/.

and the drive will be yours forever, no more fuss with changing ownership of mass folders and files, and it can be done an any internal or external drive/partition, whether it's fresh or already used, though, if it's already used, you'll have to do the command twice, once with the dot and another the asterisk .

Thanks @m_pav , additionally, it changed the root ownership in permissions to me of some existing folders in an external hdd that I recently placed there via "Open root Thunar here".
I like easy!