F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[Paul Erickson]

I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I 
think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to 
access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be 
displayed due to not having the necessary permissions.

A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

cheers, Paul

[Paul Erickson]

On 04/15/2013 03:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>  On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think
> > for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
> > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access
> > them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed
> > due to not having the necessary permissions.
>  It's a permissions problem, and not a XF one. AS Ed pointed out, run
>  "chown -R" on your external drives, and your problem will solve.
>  
That did it, thanks very much for all the replies.

cheers, Paul

[Heinz Diehl]

On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: 

>  I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11,
> I think
>  for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
>  in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access
>  them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed
>  due to not having the necessary permissions. 
It's a permissions problem, and not a XF one. AS Ed pointed out, run
"chown -R" on your external drives, and your problem will solve.

[Rami Rosen]

Hi
In case it will not solve the problem,can you please send the output of
dmesg after you get the error you mentioned?
Regards
Rami Rosen
 On Apr 15, 2013 1:51 AM, "Paul Erickson" <va7nt(a)telus.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> > On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote:
> >
> >> I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I
> >> think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
> >> in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to
> >> access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be
> >> displayed due to not having the necessary permissions.
> >>
> >> A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >>  If you did a fresh install most likely your UID/GID has changed.  Older
> > versions started at 500/500 while the latest versions start at 1000/1000
> > when users are created.
> >
> > If you do an "ls -l" at the top of the mount point (directory) you'll
> see
> > numbers where the username and goupname are normally displayed.
> >
> > Simply do, as root and from the mount point
> >
> > chown -R username:groupname
> >
>  Thanks very much. Will try that.
>
>  cheers, Paul
>
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[Paul Erickson]

On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote:
> > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data
> backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
> > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I
> get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due to not having the
> necessary permissions.
> >
> > A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
>  If you did a fresh install most likely your UID/GID has changed.  Older versions started
> at 500/500 while the latest versions start at 1000/1000 when users are created.
>
>  If you do an "ls -l" at the top of the mount point (directory) you'll see
> numbers where the username and goupname are normally displayed.
>
>  Simply do, as root and from the mount point
>
>  chown -R username:groupname 
Thanks very much. Will try that.

cheers, Paul

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote:
>  I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11,
> I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
>  in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get
> an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due to not having the
> necessary permissions.
>
>  A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far.
>
>  Any suggestions?
>
>  
If you did a fresh install most likely your UID/GID has changed.  Older versions started
at 500/500 while the latest versions start at 1000/1000 when users are created.

If you do an "ls -l" at the top of the mount point (directory) you'll see
numbers where the username and goupname are normally displayed.

Simply do, as root and from the mount point

chown -R username:groupname


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