OK, here's what I did and what I'm doing.
I burned a copy of Trisquel Mini and booted from it. Earlier in this thread
you guys showed me the sudo chown -R username:username command to get to the
files on the hard drive and it worked like hot butter over popcorn. I got to
my files and went to work.
Next, I installed Trisquel Mini to a USB flash drive and booted from it, then
tried the same command to get to the files on the hard drive and set to work
again. It did not work.
I looked in the File Manager and noticed the partition I am trying to get to
on the hard drive is not recognized by the name I gave it when I created it.
It is no longer, sda3, but Trisquel sees it as, 500 GB Volume. I tried both
names and neither worked. I thought perhaps the drive is not mounted, and so
I went to work trying to get it mounted. But every combination of commands I
could think of would not get it mounted. This is where I am stuck right now.
Perhaps it is mounted already and I just don't know how to write the correct
command? That must be it because I can see it as, 500 GB Volume - right? I
really don't know. I am so confused. I feel like the Mad Hatter. I think I
am actually finally going over the edge. It's all over. Life is a bore and
a drag. I can't take it any longer. Oh, wait, let's see... where was I?...
Oh, yes! Here I am!
Just to give the rundown on the computer I am using, if that might help
anything: It is a Dell Latitude E5500. The hard drive has three partitions,
one is swap, the next is ext4 running Tahr Pup 6.0.3 CE, and the last is ext4
with nothing installed on it. It is where all my files are stored, the same
file system I accessed with the Trisquel DVD the first time I booted it, and
these are the files I am trying to access now.
Recap: I am running Trisquel Mini from USB flash - trying to access the ext
file system on one of the partitions of my hard drive.
