I thought this might happen....I should have considered the "benefit of
others" angle, too.
SU ???
Not a carburetor for a Volkswagen; in fact, it should be 'su'. It stands
for "switch user" and is a command that lets you change to another user's
directory and privileges without having to log out and in again. Used by
itself, it allows you to (attempt to) become the root user, which allows
you to override a host of protections that, while a good thing, can get in
the way of what you want to accomplish, like reading files from an unknown
source (which is how the computer might view a newly attached disk).
NTFS-3g ???
NTFS is a file system that is a successor to the 'FAT' file systems that
were used with Windows. NTFS (the file system for Windows NT) appeared
with NT and is optionally used in its successors, Windows 2000, XP, and so
on. Linux has some difficulty dealing with this, as the inventors (a
company called "Microsoft") made many attempts to keep the internal
workings a mystery. As for "3g" I don't know, but that almost always means
"third generation", usually signifying that things have gotten worse
(meaning, "an improvement").
Hope this helps ("HTH")
Barry
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