Puzzled

[Gary worley]

Hi
I go to terminal and when i tried to access hdd it says no permission.
I typed lsblk and this came up.
Whats all that?
loop0 7:0 0 71.7M 1 loop /snap/software-boutique/31
loop1 7:1 0 140.7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74
loop2 7:2 0 91M 1 loop /snap/core/6350
loop3 7:3 0 87.3M 1 loop /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/220
loop4 7:4 0 7.5M 1 loop /snap/canonical-livepatch/54
loop5 7:5 0 34.6M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/818
loop6 7:6 0 2.3M 1 loop /snap/gnome-calculator/260
loop7 7:7 0 3.7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57
loop8 7:8 0 2.3M 1 loop /snap/gnome-calculator/180
loop9 7:9 0 3.7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-system-monitor/51
loop10 7:10 0 14.5M 1 loop /snap/gnome-logs/37
loop11 7:11 0 13M 1 loop /snap/gnome-characters/103
loop12 7:12 0 14.5M 1 loop /snap/gnome-logs/45
loop13 7:13 0 34.7M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/319
loop14 7:14 0 13M 1 loop /snap/gnome-characters/139
loop15 7:15 0 140.9M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/70
loop16 7:16 0 86.9M 1 loop /snap/core/4917
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 465.8G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
i presume the last bit is the dvd drive.
sda and sda1 must be the hdd and dvd drive but whats all this loop stuff.
Sorry for my ignorance but its driving me mad.
I did use snap to download boutique and gnome-tweak in unbuntu via terminal.
But what the heck everytime i want to access my drive i get no permission or this loop stuff.
any pointers would be appreciated and thanks for listening to me rant away.
cheers
gary

 

[arochester]

I go to terminal and when i tried to access hdd it says no permission.

How did you try to access your HDD?

What are you trying to do?

 

[Gary worley]

How did you try to access your HDD?

What are you trying to do?

Hi
i was going to format some rw dvds. so tried f/disk and then lsblk which i read online. Im a newbie. oops.
cheers
gary

 

[arochester]

i was going to format some rw dvds.

Then why try to access your HDD?

Do you have programs like K3b? Brasero? Xfburn?

For the CLI look at the likes of https://askubuntu.com/questions/47493/how-do-i-format-a-dvd-rw

 

[Gary worley]

Hi
yes i have brasero, but im trying to learn (not very succesfully) how to use terminal. And yes i did ask them questions through google but how do they stop me having permission to my own hdd?

 

[arochester]

how do they stop me having permission to my own hdd?

Us su or sudo to get rights?

 

[Gary worley]

Us su or sudo to get rights?

Thanks for your time and help.
It might seem trivial to you, but we all have to start somewhere.
Once again thank you
gary

 

[wizardfromoz]

G'day Gary and I see you have a Thread elsewhere now dealing with Permissions, so I will go there shortly.

On your OP (original post) at #1:

The Loops are of no consequence. Ubuntu have been delivering some of their packages using Snap for some time now. Snap treats the packages, each, as a squash.fs - which is usually seen in burning a linux .iso to disk or usb. Here, however, they become mounted, and thus are seen as a part of the output to be generated by such commands as lsblk and blkid.

I have a similar number of Loop references in my Ubuntu.

The part of interest for you starts with

sda

(Device) /dev/sda is usually your hard disk drive. Other drives such as auxiliary internal drives, external drives and removable drives (USB sticks) will number eg /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc etcetera.

The numeral is for a partition on your drive.

So you have a 500 GB HDD, and it is entirely allocated currently to Ubuntu Linux, which resides on /dev/sda1.

sr0 (zero) is for your DVD drive, a device in itself.

I'll see you soon over at your other thread.

Cheers

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

BTW - you are not going mad. If you look near your feet in the right light, you will see the footprints of thousands of others whom have trodden in your path.