Hi In case it will not solve the problem,can you please send the output of dmesg after you get the error you mentioned? Regards Rami Rosen On Apr 15, 2013 1:51 AM, "Paul Erickson" <va...@telus.net> wrote:
> On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: >> >>> I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I >>> think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug >>> in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to >>> access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be >>> displayed due to not having the necessary permissions. >>> >>> A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> >>> If you did a fresh install most likely your UID/GID has changed. Older >> versions started at 500/500 while the latest versions start at 1000/1000 >> when users are created. >> >> If you do an "ls -l" at the top of the mount point (directory) you'll see >> numbers where the username and goupname are normally displayed. >> >> Simply do, as root and from the mount point >> >> chown -R username:groupname >> > Thanks very much. Will try that. > > cheers, Paul > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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