To keep this room uncluttered, will all 3k+ users willing to help clean up appshowdown join us in the Lost Downboat Room? http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3877/crusaders-of-the-lost-downboat
@msPeachy Depends what you mean. If you want to change permissions to write in the partition's root directory, just change permissions on the mount point while the partition is mounted. (Generally not with -R, unless you want to change permissions for every file.) On the other hand, if you want to make a partition mount with different permission than it really has (like noexec), or give a permissionless partition (like vfat) different made-up permissions, you have to mount it differently.
@msPeachy Can you post the output of mount (or the relevant part)?
@msPeachy Sounds like you should just do chown on /media/DATA.
@msPeachy Assuming you want your user account to own the partition. Don't do it with -R. In particular, lost+found should stay owned as root and with its default permissions.
@msPeachy If you just created the partition, then all you have to do is take ownership of the root directory. Suppose your username is mspeachy. Then: sudo chown mspeachy:mspeachy /media/DATA
@msPeachy If you can link to questions where people have recommended this for ext2/3/4 partitions, we can comment (or if appropriate, edit) to caution about how it's not necessary or recommended to chown or chmod the lost+found directory.
@msPeachy You have other options. In particular, if you want the hard drive to be accessible by multiple users (but not all users), you could make a group, chgrp it to that group, and do sudo chmod g+t so that anyone in the group can write into it, but they can't mess with each other's files.
@izx no, it is a newly created partition before i reinstall ubuntu I deleted one partition and formatted it to ext4 and I've trasferred file into it via terminal with sudo cp -r but now i can't get into the partition
@msPeachy Assuming you're logged on a prescilla (and Nautilus is run as that user), you should be able to access the partition. If you can create files in it (not as root) from the Terminal but not Nautilus, then the problem is with Nautilus.
@msPeachy I wonder if this problem is just a bug in Nautilus that could be worked around by unmounting and remounting the partition. Or, if that fails, but restarting Nautilus (a complete log out and back in may be best).
@msPeachy Did you try unmounting and remounting in Nautilus, and restarting Nautilus, in case Nautilus's inability to access it (even now that it's chowned and you can access it from the command-line) is a transient Nautilus problem?
@msPeachy You can try it. If it works, you can just re-chownlost+found back to root afterwards.
@msPeachy You have a DATA folder in your DATA partition. You chowned the DATA partition but not the folder. Run: sudo chown -R prescilla:prescilla /media/DATA/DATA
For that you do want -R since presumably there's other stuff in there (which would be yours) and if there isn't then it doesn't make a difference.
I want to move the contents of the DATA directory directly to the DATA partition, it was actually it's old contents i just copied it to another partition for backup because i formatted this DATA partition to ext4, so now I copied it back to DATA partition again. Thus the DATA folder
@msPeachy If you chown -R prescilla:prescilla the DATA folder (/media/DATA/DATA), then you'll be able to move its contents as prescilla (including in Nautilus).
After solving the permissions problem accessing it, you can just drag its entire contents up to /media/DATA in Nautilus (of course, if you prefer to move it from the command line, you can do that too).
When I boot up my dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the grub startup menu does not display on two of my computers using
1. an HP w2207 monitor with an Asus Pent111 Computer.
2. my HP AMD64 using LCD TVs one was a Sony and the othe is an RCA 50 inch TV.
Not a problem on my laptops though...
Can you answer this? bypass optimus for external display http://askubuntu.com/questions/153025/bypass-optimus-for-external-display?atw=1 #nvidiaoptimus
Yeah, it's lightweight and "fast" but it seems like it doesn't transfer data or render in parallel as well as browsers like Firefox or Chromium/Chrome.
I'm new to Ubuntu but learn quick. Is there any way to change the all-around orange color scheme (highlight in menus, color of folder icons, X (close )window option, etc). Theme?Tweak? Terminal stuff? Whatever works. I would like it to be blue to be specific.
Ubuntu 12.04 Wubi 64-bit Unity interf...
@SteveKroon If you have more information to add to the question, add it. (Even if it's already in comments. Then you can clean up the comments. People will be more likely to read everything and more willing to post comments of their own if they want more inifo.) You can also publicize the question by sharing a link to it on social networking / microblogging sites (which you can do through the AU interface for some sites). And of course you can give it a bounty.
i am going to install ubuntu 11 along side windows7.after chosing the automatic resizing option , I am asked to specify the partition by dragging the slider.I have a 320 gb hard disk.I will be working on ubuntu most of the time. please tell me what space to allocate for which partion as i have no...
@SteveKroon Once comments have served their purpose, they can be removed, especially if no information will be lost (that is, if the info is already edited into the question). This makes room for other comments (which would otherwise be less visible), and keeps the information where it should ideally be (in questions and answers).
OK, but I can't delete the OP's comments, only my own - which are replies to theirs. If I delete them, doesn't it look like I don't answer their questions?
@jrg - I want to delete the comments on my post (since I've edited the feedback into the original post), but I can't delete them - askubuntu.com/questions/155785/…
@SteveKroon If the info is in the question and it's clear what info it is (for example, if someone asked you to post the output of dmesg, make clear in the question that the text you're adding is the output of dmesg), then the comments aren't needed anymore.
You can delete your own comments, and you can flag other comments as obsolete (click the flag icon to the left of them, which appears on mouseover). If there are a lot of comments to delete, it may be better to flag the question itself for moderator attention, explaining what you think needs to be done.
Hej, I know it's kind of rude but as I can't connect the question is a little bit of an emergency for me. So I'd hope it's ok if I post the link here? -smile- askubuntu.com/questions/162015/…
@ObsessiveFOSS I can't understand this question, the asker says they're latinoamerican so I'm assuming they speak spanish. It may be easier to support them in Spanish since I can't understand what they're asking - askubuntu.com/questions/162012/…
@CoreyWhitaker Added request to repost in Spanish below the English so that the question may be translated by somebody fluent in both languages(Possibly me).
@msPeachy Are you looking for an alternative to GNOME (Unity is one of the shells available for GNOME, a Unity session is a kind of GNOME interface)? Or just to Unity?
I did the below code in my python script,but its not work.
#! /usr/bin/python
import os
address = "rsync -avrz administrator@i.am.a.teapot:/opt/script/python/data/ /opt/script/python/data/"
passwd ="my server password"
os.system('%(address)s "echo %(passwd)s"' %locals())
it throws below er...
@JorgeCastro It is, and he was told in the previously closed question how to do that. The problem is they posted an exact dupe of said previous question.
When I boot up my dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the grub startup menu does not display on two of my computers using
1. an HP w2207 monitor with an Asus Pent111 Computer.
2. my HP AMD64 using LCD TVs one was a Sony and the othe is an RCA 50 inch TV.
Not a problem on my laptops though...
I did the below code in my python script,but its not work.
#! /usr/bin/python
import os
address = "rsync -avrz administrator@i.am.a.teapot:/opt/script/python/data/ /opt/script/python/data/"
passwd ="my server password"
os.system('%(address)s "echo %(passwd)s"' %locals())
it throws below er...
Will the Ubuntu 12.04LTS 'PRECISE PANGOLIN' packages be restored or replaced in the 'artfwo' repository?
