If you're tired of having to jump through hoops to open files with sudo privileges in the GNOME File Manager, Jack Wallen has just the trick you need.

Thank you for the thought, but as I wrote in the topic title, I'm talking about the root file system, it is not a boot file system. It's just a normal pool, the system boots of a different drive ...

Opening up a Terminal every time to run Nautilus as root isn't ideal, though, and luckily, technology blog GHacks has an easy way to create an application shortcut for root-enabled Nautilus instead.

The btrsfck command allows you to check the integrity of a btrfs file system. As file systems migrate to this newer file system format, this command is increasingly important.

How to Open a File With Administrator Rights. Some files force programs to perform operations that require administrator rights. As an example, if you received a ZIP file containing several ...

A vulnerability in the creation of symbolic links (symlinks) in the free Samba file and printer server can be exploited to attain access to files outside of predefined paths and to the root ...

Is there a reason you can't map the root of an SMB file server as a drive? My router is providing DNS via dnsmasq. As expected, I get a list of all the shares on the file server. I've tried this ...