Volumio mounting USB disk as root user and group

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Volumio 4.119, Pi 3B, IQAudio DAC.
Volumio insists upon auto-mounting a USB drive to the path /media/drivename with the user and group both set to “root”. This prevents adding or updating the USB disk’s directories and music files from another computer across the LAN because of the error: “Could not create directory: Received error SSH_FX_PERMISSION_DENIED with description ‘Permission denied’”. Filezilla can only be logged in as the user “volumio”, not as “root”. Also, you cannot change the ownership of the mounted directory using SSH (eg with PuTTY, sudo chown) because you cannot log in as the user “root” either (only as “volumio”). The auto-mount and its restrictions seem to be the result of a change made in the newer versions of Volumio. Is there a way to remount the USB drive path with the owner and group set to “volumio”?

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I think it’s this issue, reported 4 months ago.

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Thanks. It’s an ownership issue and with the owner being set to “root” one cannot simply change the ownership. Not even using sudo permissions.

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I expect the USB drive is formatted as exfat?
if yes then a temp bypass is given in my previous post.