{"id":6997,"date":"2014-05-16T05:53:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/cannot-access-hdd-files-through-linux-mint-live-usb-collection-of-common-programming-errors-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-16T05:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T05:53:20","slug":"cannot-access-hdd-files-through-linux-mint-live-usb-collection-of-common-programming-errors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/cannot-access-hdd-files-through-linux-mint-live-usb-collection-of-common-programming-errors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot access HDD files through Linux Mint Live USB-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you created your Linux Mint Live USB, did you include persistence to allow for changes (like transfering files or setting changes) to be made?<\/p>\n<p>If not, I recommend using LiLi USB Creator or whatever you originally used to create a Linux Mint Live USB with persistence. I believe you need a 2GB or higher sized USB drive\/SD Card to create a Live USB with persistence which may be needed if you have a lot of data to rescue, but the limit is a 4GB space reservation for persistence unless you want to have a more challenging time on a workaround.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t access any other drives on your Linux Mint 14 Live USB it is likely because of a bug in the OS saying that it can&#8217;t mount anything. I looked around on forums because I could not access any drives due to a mounting problem that I solved by typing the following lines into the terminal: press Enter after typing in each line.<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo mkdir \/media\/$USER<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>sudo chown $USER.$USER \/media\/$USER<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you created your Linux Mint Live USB, did you include persistence to allow for changes (like transfering files or setting changes) to be made? If not, I recommend using LiLi USB Creator or whatever you originally used to create a Linux Mint Live USB with persistence. I believe you need a 2GB or higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}