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Ubuntu Question

  • 02-04-2007 8:13pm
    #1
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm trying to fix a computer so I popped in a Ubuntu Live CD, hoping to be able to edit files on the HD (like you can do with Knoppix). But for the life of me I wasn't able to make the HD writeable from the GUI.

    I mounted the filesytems and all, and according to "mount" in terminal it's mounted as "rw". I think the problem lies in the fact I don't have ownership for any of the files. So I tried changing that using "chown". No luck, it didn't let me, even if I use the "sudo" prefix.

    It's it possible to edit (i.e. delete and create) files on a HD on a system that has Ubuntu running from CD (I don't want to install it). And I know I can use Terminal to delete files, but it should work from the GUI dammit!

    Thanks for any help.


Comments

  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    right click the drive icon , and IIRC action , make writable

    drives are mounted read only by default to prevent new users doing stupid tings

    if it's NTFS then the write drivers need to be configured, but 5.1 may allow you to write without any fancy stuff.


  • #3
    AndrewMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭AndrewMc


    Perhaps since it's not a Linux partition, the owners can't be meaningfully changed.

    Can you try using "sudo vim filename" or "gksu gedit filename", so you run the editor as root, rather than trying to change the file to suit you.


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