F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

[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 at telus.net> 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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