[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Rowan Berkeley]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:04 +0100, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at 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:-
> alan at bishop:~$ whoami
> alan
> alan at bishop:~$ sudo -s
> [sudo] password for alan:
> root at 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.