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  1. June 27th, 2010 #1
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    permission issues with live CD + installed partition

    I made a mess of my partitions and want to reinstall ubuntu. My problem is that when I put in the live CD and navigate to my files I don't have permission to copy them to an external drive.

    What is the best way around this. Fix Grub so I can get in there. Use some command line kung-fu to change permissions. Something else.
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    Re: permission issues with live CD + installed partition

    press alt-f2 and then enter:

    Code:
    gksu nautilus
    that will let you copy files with super user privileges
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  3. June 28th, 2010 #3
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    Re: permission issues with live CD + installed partition

    Thanks, that worked
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