I cannot copy or create folders on an external drive. It says I'm not root. Please tell me which files do I have to post here, thanks a lot!
1 Answer
Not sure what filesystem is on the external drive, but if it's one that knows "owners" maybe you're not the owner of the directory/files, so can't change it. Could try going into (cd
) the mounted drive and
sudo chown [yourusername] -R .
using whatever your username is (see whoami
) so you become the owner.
sudo -i nautilus
and then copy them. Then run the commandchmod +rw /path/to/coppied/files