Permision denied at opening a file

[pcfan]

Hello, this must be my first post. I have used lxde fro a month now, but I know it from a long time ago, since I used to run in a laptop.
Now in my PC I cannot access my files, I am not a advanced user, that is why I tried using the terminal but cannot get results. I need as user (and I am in the root group, i think) to have access to all my files specially pdfs because I need them for my work.
It's been 4 hours now and I cannot open any .

I have my home folder set in another partition in fact is another folder called "DATA" which is mounted on /home/user name.
This is my computer. I appreciate your help. Thanks.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-153-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: LXDE 0.10.0 
  Distro: LXLE 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: G31TM-P21 (MS-7529) v: 1.0 
  serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.7 date: 07/28/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E5300 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  Speed: 1519 MHz min/max: 1203/2603 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1204 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 
  v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 v: 1.4 Mesa 21.2.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture driver: bttv 
  Device-3: Brooktree Bt878 Audio Capture driver: N/A 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-153-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 type: USB driver: r8188eu 
  IF: wlx503eaa3d9c5e state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 128.92 GiB (43.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HD322HJ size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 34.33 GiB used: 9.21 GiB (26.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 96.38 GiB used: 36.44 GiB (37.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 162 Uptime: 25m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 1.45 GiB (37.9%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38 

[barbarashaw]

Hello, this must be my first post. I have used lxde fro a month now, but I know it from a long time ago, since I used to run in a laptop.
Now in my PC I cannot access my files, I am not a advanced user, that is why I tried using the terminal but cannot get results. I need as user (and I am in the root group, i think) to have access to all my files specially pdfs because I need them for my work.
It's been 4 hours now and I cannot open any .
geometry dash subzero
I have my home folder set in another partition in fact is another folder called "DATA" which is mounted on /home/user name.
This is my computer. I appreciate your help. Thanks.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-153-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: LXDE 0.10.0 
  Distro: LXLE 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: G31TM-P21 (MS-7529) v: 1.0 
  serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.7 date: 07/28/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E5300 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  Speed: 1519 MHz min/max: 1203/2603 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1200 2: 1204 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 
  v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 v: 1.4 Mesa 21.2.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture driver: bttv 
  Device-3: Brooktree Bt878 Audio Capture driver: N/A 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-153-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 type: USB driver: r8188eu 
  IF: wlx503eaa3d9c5e state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 128.92 GiB (43.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HD322HJ size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 34.33 GiB used: 9.21 GiB (26.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 96.38 GiB used: 36.44 GiB (37.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 162 Uptime: 25m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 1.45 GiB (37.9%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38 

It sounds like you have your files in another partition (/dev/sda3) that is not mounted automatically when you boot LXLE. To access your files, you need to mount the partition first.

You can do this manually by running this command in a terminal:

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sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

This will mount the partition to the /mnt directory. You can then use a file manager or a terminal to browse the files in /mnt.

However, this is only a temporary solution. If you want to mount the partition permanently, you need to edit the /etc/fstab file and add an entry for /dev/sda3.

You can open the file in a text editor with root privileges:

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

You can add a line like this at the end of the file:

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/dev/sda3 /mnt ext4 defaults 0 2

This assumes that your partition is formatted as ext4. You can change it to match your partition type.

To save and exit the file, press Ctrl+O and then Ctrl+X.

You may need to reboot for the changes to take effect.

I hope this helps.

[pcfan]

Thank you so much for your reply, appreciated.
It's been a long time and I currently changed the partitions.
But I will keep your reply and commands , just in case
Regards.