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Purnendu Nath
Asked: 2014-11-22 04:47:00 +0800 CST

Permission not changing [duplicate]

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enter image description hereenter image description hereWhy I can't change permission of any files which are located on other partitions like sda2,sda3,sda4 and so on.. When I change it from properties it's immediately change again to it's previous setting.. When I tried with nautilus... it shows

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  1. This is probably because you don't have sufficient privileges to change the permissions in the first place.

    Try pressing Alt+F2 and then entering gksudo nautilus. Once you've entered your password, the file browser (nautilus) should launch, and you should be able to change those permissions.

    You can also do this from the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running the chown command.

    Eg: sudo chown [USER]:[USER] /media/USER/FOLDER/FILE

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