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   royal (royal@theres.life)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 11:25:18 JST royal

   I'm having permissions problems getting to files on a USB drive in #Linux. Not sure what to do here.

   Specifically, this is a USB boot drive for a Raspberry Pi 4 which no longer boots due to a botched OS upgrade; I'm mounting it on an amd64 #popos box; popos is #ubuntu based. The filesystem I want to recover files from is Ext4. The Pi had two users, and I want to copy both of their user directories to my local hard drive.

   I would prefer not to force a chmod or chown on the files on the USB drive.

   I get errors from the GUI:

   The folder "whatever" cannot be handled because you do not have permissions to read it.

   I appear to have Read permissions at this level, though, judging by ls -l.

   Is there a way to force my local user to have read permissions on the mounted drive without writing to the disk I'm copying from?

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 11:25:17 JST Ethan Black

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     @royal I mean you might be able to just `sudo su` and do your work in a root shell.

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 02:16:37 JST Ethan Black

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     @royal 😉

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     royal (royal@theres.life)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 02:16:39 JST royal

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     • Ethan Black

     @golemwire Yeah, it was a simple as that. Sudo to the rescue.