Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Paul Erickson]

On 04/15/2013 03:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:

On 15.04.2013, 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.

It's a permissions problem, and not a XF one. AS Ed pointed out, run
"chown -R" on your external drives, and your problem will solve.


That did it, thanks very much for all the replies.

cheers, Paul

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Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Heinz Diehl]

On 15.04.2013, 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.

It's a permissions problem, and not a XF one. AS Ed pointed out, run
"chown -R" on your external drives, and your problem will solve.

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Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Rami Rosen]

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"  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
>
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Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Paul Erickson]

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

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Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Ed Greshko]

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


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F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Paul Erickson]

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?

Thanks in advance.

cheers, Paul
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