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