[Lubuntu] Not able to access disks from Lubuntu CD

[Avi Greenbury]

Ari Torhamo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> An upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 (and fresh installation too) from 10.10
> failed, and I decided to try Lubuntu instead. When I try to access
> the disks from the Lubuntu live-CD (to do some back-ups), I get an
> error message "Not authorized" (this seems to be an eternal problem
> in Linux). I tried "sudo chown...", but without success. I'd like to
> know which command to use to be able to access the disks (hard drives
> and USB stick). Thanks very much.
> 

I guess you're trying to get at the disks from the old Ubuntu install
that broke?

The 'not authorised' bit would be because the livecd user you're logged
in as on the live cd isn't the same user as you were on the installed
system.

What was the chown command that you ran, and did it itself produce any
errors?

Generally, when you're taking backups, the solution to the
access problem is to run the backup as root, rather than chown the
files - presumably you'd prefer to take the backup of the files
preserving their permissions.

-- 
Avi