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It wont let me open the flash drive to get the files I need. Anyone know the line of code I need to put me as root. I would like to stay root.

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    Running `sudo su` will keep you as root. Use with caution. – stumblebee May 23 '18 at 17:07
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    `sudo su root` will make you the root user on command line. However, I'm guessing you probably just need to change the owner of the mounted flash drive, which should be located under /media/username/drivename. In the cli from /media/username you can run `sudo chown -R username drivename` which should make it accessible to you from the Ubuntu GUI. – phandolin May 23 '18 at 17:08

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Ubuntu is designed so you don't need to be root; instead you do 

sudo -i

inside a terminal emulator window which bestows the rights of root.

However, it's safer to use 

sudo *commmandtoexecute*

as needed; for example, if you want to open the file manager in Ubuntu with the rights of root, do

sudo nautilus

A good explanation of the options available with sudo, can be found in the answers at What are the differences between "su", "sudo -s", "sudo -i", "sudo su"?

And, this is done for user safety and administrator sanity. root is just too powerful and it's far too easy to break a system and/or destroy data to be in root all the time.

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