How to delete files in another partition

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-11-22 18:00:03 skrev Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:

> On 22 November 2010 16:44, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
>> How can I make changes to another partition with another instance of
>> Ubuntu 10.04?  I made changes to a file in /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d on
>> installation "A" that caused a fatal error in X during boot.  I
>> installed another instance of Ubuntu in partition "B".  I can mount and
>> view files on "A" from "B", but I cannot figure out how to modify/delete
>> files on "A" from "B".
>
> I presume you are viewing the files in Nautilus.  You will see the
> mount point in the Location area.  It will be
> /media/a_long_hex_string.  In a terminal you can then do things like
> gksu gedit /media/...../usr/lib/...
> or
> sudo rm /media/.../usr/lib/...
>
> Colin
>

Or run nautilus as root and then do whatever you want (I think):

gksudo nautilus

Just be careful when doing this. Make sure you know what you are doing  
before you do it.

-- 
Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg