Comment 4 for bug 1261524

Joseph:

I don't. This was on my primary workstation running Saucy and because I needed the drive, I couldn't just sit on it while debugging this. So I formatted it in ext4 as noted above, and worked around the root ownership.

I'm pretty sure the permissions thing when it was formatted NTFS is due to NTFS not really supporting unix-style permissions, however, I was a bit taken that I was unable to make a script executable (AFAIK, executables on WIndows are marked Executable somehow on NTFS drives). But that's a fairly complex issue, I"m led to believe.

Once I chown'd the drive with my user name, the change stuck and now when I plug it in, I get the correct user/group ownership.

I just found it very odd that my drive, after being formatted in ext4, when plugged in, was UID/GID root but still mounted to /media/MYUSERNAME/DISKLABEL