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su doesn't have permission to view drive contents

Asked by CraigMcW

All,

Running 10.10, I suffered a drive crash, apparently in my boot sector. I was able to boot from CD and mount another internal hd and copy my files to it. I performed an install of 11.04 and tried to mount that drive (sudo mount /dev/sdb3 /stor) which executed without error. However, when I try to view the contents, the system tells me I don't have permissions. What may I do please?

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

If you know the mount point for your /dev/sdb3/stor, then you can do the following command from the Terminal to 'own' it:

sudo chown -R your_username:your_username /mount_point/location
sudo chmod -R 755 /mount_point/location

HTH.

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CraigMcW (craig-r-mcwilliams) said : 		#2

Thank you Ian. I forgot the -R ! Yikes. My synaptic clefts must be
expanding. :)

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Ian Ace <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #160437 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/160437
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Ian Ace proposed the following answer:
> If you know the mount point for your /dev/sdb3/stor, then you can do the
> following command from the Terminal to 'own' it:
>
> sudo chown -R your_username:your_username /mount_point/location
> sudo chmod -R 755 /mount_point/location
>
> HTH.
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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You can boot to liveCD and reinstate the bootloader

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CraigMcW (craig-r-mcwilliams) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.