F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Mon Apr 15 10:47:38 UTC 2013


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.



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