On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:04 +0100, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into > > onboard memory, and checked that they are accessible and function > > normally, I have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk > > drive. There is now nothing on the external disk drive except an > > empty 'Lost and Found' folder. However, I cannot copy any of my > > files back to the external disk drive, because it says I do not have > > permissions to write to this destination. The properties tab for the > > external disk drive says 'permissions could not be determined.' I > > cannot imagine what could cause this, since everything that was on > > the drive has been deleted. Does anybody know how I can change the > > permissions? > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions > is probably helpful here. You need a line in your /etc/fstab which > describes the partition on the USB disk, and where you'd like it > mounted. > > > I do not know how to log in as root on this computer, since Linux > > Emporium never told me, though I could ask them. It would presumably > > be easier to change the permissions using 'sudo', if root privileges > > are required, wouldn't it?> > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root > like with:- > sudo -s > Observe:- > a...@bishop:~$ whoami > alan > a...@bishop:~$ sudo -s > [sudo] password for alan: > r...@bishop:~# whoami > root > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo explains this in more > detail. Cheers, Al.
I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the disk, and changing the permissions to include myself. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
