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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
