I apologize for any noobness, I'm fairly new to linux and I've tried searching and troubleshooting on my own but I've come up empty handed.

I'm attempting to format a USB drive but running into issues with permissions ( I think )

I've tried right clicking the drive in the folder list and choosing "Format" and after running through the options and doing the final confirmation the dialogs close with no errors, but nothing changes.

I've attempted changing the permissions for the drive in using the GUI ( even though it shows the owner as "Me" and that I have full access or Read and Write ) and allowing anyone to read/write/ modify - but after submitting the changes the options just revert back without any notification ( not sure why Ubuntu even has these GUI options since they don't do much out of the box )

After searching online I've found a few things that are supposed to help "own" a folder but nothings worked that I've found so far

I've tried doing the following in the terminal:

sudo chown -R /media/(username)/(drivename) --but get a "missing parameter" error

Any help would be appreciated or suggestions of where else to look