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gnome-disk-utility package

Run Disk Utility wi Sudo enabled

Asked by budtuba

I am a fairly new user of Ubuntu and need some help.

When I run Disk Utility having installed several old IDE drives, I would like to mount some of them using the GUI command, but I get an error message is detailed:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdb2 on /media/autosave

This utility is very useful because of the GUI display and sidetracks my short term memory for commands and device addressing when using Terminal.

How can I establish root or sudo before running Disk Utility?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Run it using gksudo, you can edit the launcher so that it is prefixed with the command.

E.g:

gksudo diskutility

Obviosly change 'diskutility' for whatever the command actually is. You will find the launchers in /usr/share/applications

Just edit the file using:

gksudo gedit

Then gksudo will pop up when you click the icon in Dash and run as root.

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