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    Pop_OS says "Folder Empty" but files visible in Windows

    I've been happily using Pop_OS for the last year. I have three hard drives for data, besides my two system drives for Pop_OS and Windows. I access all three drives from both OS's, but I hardly ever use Windows anymore. One drive is called Pictures, and it contains several folders that I can...
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    Script for enabling and disabling USB auto-mount

    Hi All I'm working on a system that will have USB auto mounting disabled most of the time. In some cases we'd like to enable it for specific user in the background. How can I script the enable and disable of the USB auto-mount functionality in Suse? James S.
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    Directory creation and permission setting syntax

    Hi TuxBot, I'm completing a challenge on Linux server administration, and I was asked to create a directory inside of /var directory. Set permissions to user and group as rwx, and other to --- Also need to set a particular user as owner of the directory, and add this same user to a specific...
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    Solved KVM Machine doesn't start due to permissions

    Hi there, I've moved my virtual HDD to another drive and the VM refuses to start due to permission problems. I tried to add my user to the groups "kvm" "qemu" and "libvirt-qemu". I used rsync -avh source destination as root to copy the image. I even tried chmod 777 -R with no success. let me...
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    Locked Drive After moving to Linux from Windows [HELP] [Pop-OS]

    I have been looking, and looking but I cant find an answer that would help. Folder Located under: /mnt/Drive So in the Terminal I typed: ls -l drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Aug 6 23:14 Drive I tried Chown, on it but it said: sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 1000, should be 0 sudo...
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