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How do I access the file system as a root or owner?
I need to add online store configuration files in file system var/www. but I can't access the file system, because it says that only owner can access it, the owner is root.
So, how can I access those ...
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Where did this “nonexistant” directory come from and what should I do with it?
It's owned by 'nobody' and I'm wondering if it could explain difficulty I'm having in shutting down.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 28 09:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jan 16 08:28 ...
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No filesystem could mount root
I am trying to boot a linux kernel 3.7.0 on virtualbox and it keeps telling me the same message: "No filesystem could mount root tried ext3 ext4 vfat fusebk". I put append root=/dev/sda in my isolinux ...
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Can't access files when VirtualBox is run as root
I use VirtualBox for running Windows XP as a guest OS in my Ubuntu 12.04 host machine.
When running VirtualBox, it does not support USB, but when I launch VirtualBox as root using gksu virtualbox, ...
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Copying entire root drive to flash drive with different drive sizes on VirtualBox
I have my modified Lubuntu version installed on VirtualBox and I want to copy the entire root filesystem to flash drive in order to boot it on my physical PC.
My flash drive has 1.90GB and the entire ...
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(No Root File System)-ergo no install 12.04
I have my HDD 1Tb partitioned with fs ext4.
Previously I was booting from the 2TB Hard Drive...I disconnected that.
Now I want a clean install 12.04 but cannot figure out "Root File System" ("/")
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Why can't i paste anything under the /usr/ folder?
I just wanted to install a theme for the start up screen and I have to copy some files over here to /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksplash/Themes/.
But the answer i get is: Access denied. Could not write to ...
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Ubuntu LiveCD,editing xorg.conf
someone has edited wrongly my xorg.conf file in /etc/x11/xorg.conf and so my computer wont show anything,just a blank screen.I want to be able to edit the xorg.conf file and delete all the changes ...
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Have put me out of admin update [duplicate]
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Have put me out of admin
Updatet: Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. Error while logging in: Cannot update /home/marek/.ICEauthority .In the meantime i can work in terminal as sudo ...
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Have put me out of admin
Installed a new user and then tried to create one with the name root, because sudo
nerves. Didnot work and i have learnt in the meantime, this is not possible.
I am now unable to login into user ...
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Should the root folder (/root) be empty?
I have been moving files around to prepare for a remaster. I put some files into root, which I though might help an issue I was having with auto login in live mode.
anyway, putting files into root ...
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“No root file system defined” error while installing ubuntu
I am new to linux/ ubuntu and just downloaded the v11 of ubuntu to learn linux. I faced this "No root file system is defined" error while trying to install it. This is how I was proceeding -
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What is the root of my application?
Can someone help me understand what is the root of my application?
I would like to use vim and create a one line procfile in the root of my application.
Then I can test the procfile using a gem ...
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Ask for password when root required
Is there any way to make programs ask for password when root is required? For example I want to extract some files with File Roller into /usr/share/ where apparently root is required but instead of ...
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Recovering after a file system error, cannot boot [closed]
I was using Banshee and it crashed and caused the whole system to crash (pretty disappointing). I waited a few minutes and nothing happened, so I used the power button to turn off my laptop. I booted ...
