Jake Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Can I run Unbuntu as root when in the GUI? (I know I can su to root at the command line) I have a bunch of huge directories left over from when I was running Vista but in XP I can't delete them. So I thought I'd boot from a linux cd and delete them that way. But when I try to do that it says I can't delete them because they're owned by root. I tried to switch user and then log in as root but it doesn't seem to work. (It's just root/root, right?) Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 If you are using the LiveCD then the user is "root" and password is normally "toor". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2007 Author Share Posted May 12, 2007 Tried it, didn't work. Thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo sudo rm -R directoryname ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 sudo su - Get you in as root, you might need to chmod the directories and then you can delete them.. Also make sure you are mouting the FS RW and not RO (Being NTFS it could be RO)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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