Missing hard drive space

[Nils Kassube]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > That would be:
> >
> > gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
> >
> > or for KDE users:
> >
> > kdesudo kate /etc/fstab
>
>     I wonder why it works? On 8.04 to 9.04 I still use sudo gedit and
> it works fine. Why is that I wonder?

It _may_ work with sudo as well but you may also have trouble with your 
config files afterwards if they are overwritten by root. Then you can't 
access them any longer as normal user. The commands gksudo or kdesudo 
are the preferred safe way to start graphical applications.


Nils