On 05/09/2014 02:52 PM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: > Since very recent, on a powerbook, pcmanfm does not open anymore > external usb sticks. It sees them but when i try to open i'm getting: > > Not authorized to perform operation > > The same happens, when i try to open the bootstrap partition. > > I'm even unable to do this if starting pcmanfm as root or by gksudo. > Before this was possible without any problem. > > Moreover, pcmanfm doesn't mount audio cd's. I'm not sure if this is > also recent or not, since i didn't try it before. The error msg in any > case is different: > > Ort kann nicht eingehÃĪngt werden (= Cannot mount device) > > Where can i check to repair this? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > There are some useful terminal commands such as: chown and chmod For more info type man chown or man chmod But the basic usage for chmod is chown username /place/or/file This is how I regain ownership of a filesystem. Of course you may run it and it doesn't work... You may have to run it as sudo and you may need to use -R to recursively own all files in a directory as in chown -R myusername /the/path/to/the/drive (ex chown -R farinet /dev/sda7)
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