On 15-Mar-2012, at 12:04 AM, Arun Tomar wrote: > On 03/14/2012 11:55 PM, ColVIN wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Recently I shifted to LinuxMint12 from Mandriva 2012.2, while moving I >> formatted my / partition and kept my /home partition unformatted. >> Now, >> >> I cannot access the home folder of one of the user of Mandriva from >> LinuxMint12. >> >> LinuxMint is assigning that folders ownership to GID which has not been >> assigned to any of the user of LinuxMint12. >> What should I do to gain access of that home folder of Mandriva's user? >> (I tried opening that folder with sudo.. but that did not help..) >> >> Regards >> >> Vinayak D. Kulkarni >> _______________________________________ >> Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List > run the following command from the terminal > sudo chown -R <current_user>:<current_group> /home > > replace the angle brackets and content inside that properly, as needed.
Wondering why opening with 'sudo' did not work. -- shantanoo _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
