It's been my experience that using external media like that (I assume FAT or NTFS on the external drive) on Linux can be problematic. The drivers to access NTFS and FAT filesystems do not handle permission/owner changes the way you would expect a normal ext4 (or whatever UNIX filesystem) to behave.
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