What file system is the drive formatted as?  This sounds similar to the 
type of permission issues to see when you use a filesystem that supports 
users/permissions.

Brian Cluff

On 07/21/2017 07:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have been knocking my head against a wall for the past hour. I am 
> trying to plug in a USB external drive and have Ubuntu 14.04 mount the 
> drive so I can write data to it. But the drive is always mounted with 
> root as the owner and group. I have read countless pages about how to 
> enable a user to read/write to the drive but to no avail. The drive is 
> automatically mounted in /media/mark/dive1. I have not created a 
> permanent mount point in /etc/fstab because the drive is, well, 
> removable, so it will not always be connected to the usb port.
>
> There has to be a simple fix to this problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
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