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[Jeff Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Title:
  Same USB HDD gets different mounting behaviour depending on filesystem
  used?

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running Saucy on my laptop.  I have a 2TB USB3.0 external HDD that is
  factory formatted in NTFS.

  When I first plugged it in, it was mounted like so:

  drwx------ 1 bladernr bladernr 4096 Dec 16 12:47 Alexandria

  and I was able to start creating a python script inside the disk :
  -rw------- 1 bladernr bladernr 179 Dec 16 12:47 update-library

  However, it was absolutely impossible to make that script executable.
  I tried remounting the drive by setting umaks, dmask and fmask to
  0777, and I also tried setting the exec option.  But there was
  absolutely no way I could make that script executable.

  So I reformatted the disk in ext4.  This time, the drive mounted with
  ownership being root:root.  Thus, still unusable, but even moreso this
  time because after I plugged in my hard disk, I was unable to even
  read the disk, let alone try to copy data or create files on it.

  In order to make my USB disk actually usable, as my user, I had to
  take the additional step of using chown on a cli.  A user shouldn't
  have to take extraordinary measures like this to  make their external
  HDD usable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic 3.11.0-15.23
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  bladernr   2560 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC2:  bladernr   2560 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  bladernr   2560 F.... pulseaudio
  Date: Mon Dec 16 15:21:35 2013
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=c2f4cbc3-a904-4dbf-acd4-0a28f482d683
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (641 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
  MachineType: Alienware M15x
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcFB:
   
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=e7eedf5d-5aad-4230-b123-47162b1acea6 ro
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.11.0-15-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.11.0-15-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                             1.116
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-22 (177 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/24/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.bios.version: A08
  dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.board.version: A08
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.chassis.version: A08
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA08:bd08/24/2010:svnAlienware:pnM15x:pvrA08:rvnAlienware:rn:rvrA08:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA08:
  dmi.product.name: M15x
  dmi.product.version: A08
  dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware

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