help, cannot write to adrives :(

Ebenonce · 08-17-2004, 03:56 PM

I have finally gotten a working and booting version of linux up and running, however, I am unable to write to any of the hard drives, I believe my problem is that I need to log in as root, however I have no idea how this is accomplished, Linux is useless to me if I cannot save anything on here period, please help!

Skyline · 08-17-2004, 04:02 PM

To write to an extra drive the particular partition on it has to be mounted locally first - have you mounted the partiton to a mount point first?

david_ross · 08-17-2004, 04:02 PM

If you want to become root from a normal user then su and then enter your root password:
su -

You should be able to write to your home directory however. If you can't then check your permissions with:
ls -l /path/to/home

Also check that the drive is not mounted as readonly with:
mount

Ebenonce · 08-17-2004, 05:16 PM

the drive is mounted, an I unchcked read only, but whenever I try to put a file in a folder it says it cannot write to it, I see that I can SU, but I don' understand how to change permissions in text mode, is there any way I can switch user in GUI mode?

Ebenonce · 08-17-2004, 05:36 PM

is there any way to switch users in Deb8ian linux? I can pull up a bash shell and enter su, that sets me as root, but I wanna be in X windows as root, how can I accomplish this?

david_ross · 08-18-2004, 03:42 PM

Just su then run the application from the shell that you want to have root privilages.