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Ant
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:01 pm Post subject: Root access |
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Hello all,
I have a Lenovo netbook with Ubuntu 10.something I think - severe family distractions these last months - and a USB hard drive ready to do a back-up. As an aside I've been very pleased with the netbook.
The trouble is that the drive has root permission only so I cannot make a new folder nor copy netbook files to it. I've obviously managed a long time ago but I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it!
It would actually be handier if I could change ownership to me rather than root but of course I can't do that either.
I'm sure I've seen a way to do sudo for the duration, as it were, but my memory isn't what it was...
Some advice would be much appreciated -
Regards Ant |
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Dutch_Master
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| Code: | | sudo chown <username> /full/path/to/usbstick |
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nelz
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | sudo chown -R username: /path/to/drive |
The -R changes all files and directories recursively, otherwise you could write to the root but not any folders. The : changes the username too.
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Ant
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thankyou both - and Nelz, I like your tag!
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